The challenge of improving software quality: Developers' beliefs about the contribution of agile practices

15th Americas Conference on Information Systems 2009, AMCIS 2009

Volumn 2, Issue , 2009, Pages 1027-1038

  Kong, Sue ^a   Kendall, Julie E ^b   Kendall, Kenneth E ^b  

^a KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agile Practices; Agile Software Development; Software Coding Quality; Software Design Quality; Software Quality; Survey of Software Developers

Indexed keywords

AGILE PRACTICES; AGILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; SOFTWARE CODING; SOFTWARE DESIGN QUALITY; SOFTWARE DEVELOPER; SOFTWARE QUALITY;

AGILE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SURVEYS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84870161287     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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