Using experiments to build a body of knowledge

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1755, Issue , 2000, Pages 265-282

  Basili, Victor ^a   Shull, Forrest ^a   Lanubile, Filippo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACT MODELS; BODY OF KNOWLEDGE; CONTEXT VARIABLES; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING EXPERIMENTS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84943302693     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-46562-6_24     Document Type: Conference Paper

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