Software quality trade-offs: A systematic map

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 54, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 651-662

  Barney, Sebastian ^a,b   Petersen, Kai ^a   Svahnberg, Mikael ^a   Aurum, Aybüke ^b   Barney, Hamish ^b  

^a BLEKINGE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Software engineering; Software quality; Trade off approaches

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EMPIRICAL LITERATURE; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; INDUSTRIAL PRACTITIONERS; LARGE VOCABULARY; SOFTWARE PRODUCT QUALITY; SOFTWARE QUALITY; SYSTEMATIC MAPS; TRADE OFF;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

EID: 84860259993     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2012.01.008     Document Type: Review

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