Software engineering job productivity-a systematic review

International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 387-406

  Hernández López, Adrián ^a   Colomo Palacios, Ricardo ^a   García Crespo, Ángel ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

job productivity; software economics; Software engineering; systematic review

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS; ORGANIZATIONAL MANAGEMENT; PRODUCTIVITY MEASURE; PRODUCTIVITY MEASUREMENTS; SOFTWARE ECONOMICS; SOFTWARE PRACTITIONERS; SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

PRODUCTIVITY;

EID: 84880544566     PISSN: 02181940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218194013500125     Document Type: Article

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