Some observations on software quality

Proceedings of the 37th Annual Southeast Regional Conference, ACM-SE 1999

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages

  Ward, William A ^a   Venkataraman, Buvaneswari ^a  

^a School of Computing   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; DEVELOPMENT TOOLS; QUALITY MEASUREMENTS; QUALITY SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE QUALITY;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 84894680545     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/306363.306367     Document Type: Conference Paper

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