Technical debt: Showing the way for better transfer of empirical results

Perspectives on the Future of Software Engineering: Essays in Honor of Dieter Rombach

Volumn 9783642373954, Issue , 2013, Pages 179-190

  Shull, Forrest ^a   Falessi, Davide ^a   Seaman, Carolyn ^a   Diep, Madeline ^a   Layman, Lucas ^a  

^a Fraunhofer USA Inc   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

BUSINESS GOALS; CASE-STUDIES; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; EMPIRICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; RECENT PROGRESS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING RESEARCH; TECHNICAL DEBTS; VALUE-BASED; WATERSHED MOMENT;

EID: 84919461980     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-37395-4_12     Document Type: Chapter

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