A survey on the fitness of commercial software metric tools for service in heterogeneous environments: Common pitfalls

Proceedings - International Software Metrics Symposium

Volumn 2003-January, Issue , 2003, Pages 144-152

  Auer, M ^a   Graser, B ^b   Biffl, S ^b  

^a Raiffeisen Central Bank Software Development   (Austria)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Automation; Costs; Engineering management; Environmental management; Programming; Project management; Quality management; Software measurement; Software metrics; Software tools

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COST ENGINEERING; COSTS; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; QUALITY MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE; DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT; ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT; HETEROGENEOUS ENVIRONMENTS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; SOFTWARE MEASUREMENT; SOFTWARE METRICS; STANDARD INTERFACE;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 84943179973     PISSN: 15301435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/METRIC.2003.1232463     Document Type: Conference Paper

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