Finding a place for discount usability engineering in agile development: Throwing down the gauntlet

Proceedings of the Agile Development Conference, ADC 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 40-46

  Kane, D ^a  

^a SRA International ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Application software; Bridges; Convergence; Costs; Design engineering; Productivity; Programming; Software testing; System testing; Usability

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; BRIDGES; COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; COSTS; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; PRODUCTIVITY; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE TESTING; USABILITY ENGINEERING;

AGILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; CONVERGENCE; DESIGN ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATIONS; SYSTEM TESTING; UNDERLYING PRINCIPLES; USABILITY; USABILITY PROBLEMS;

COST ENGINEERING;

EID: 84944320333     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ADC.2003.1231451     Document Type: Conference Paper

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