Software quality across borders: Three case studies on company internal alignment

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 20-38

  Barney, Sebastian ^a,b   Mohankumar, Varun ^b   Chatzipetrou, Panagiota ^c   Aurum, Aybuke ^b   Wohlin, Claes ^a   Angelis, Lefteris ^c  

^a BLEKINGE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Alignment; Global software development; Offshore; Outsourcing; Quality; Software

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; GLOBAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; LONG-TERM ORIENTATION; OFFSHORE; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; SPEARMAN RANK CORRELATION; STAKEHOLDER GROUPS; VALUE-BASED SOFTWARE ENGINEERINGS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; IMAGE QUALITY; INDUSTRY; OUTSOURCING; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

ALIGNMENT;

EID: 84888326403     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2013.06.004     Document Type: Article

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