The life cycle effects of software process improvement: A longitudinal analysis

Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 1998

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages 346-351

  Harter, Donald E ^a   Slaughter, Sandra A ^a   Krishnan, Mayuram S ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

IS development effort; IS development time; Software quality

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LIFE CYCLE; PROCESS ENGINEERING; QUALITY ASSURANCE; QUALITY CONTROL;

COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS; CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT; HIGH-QUALITY SOFTWARE; IS DEVELOPMENT; LONGITUDINAL ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT LIFE CYCLE; SOFTWARE PROCESS IMPROVEMENT; SOFTWARE QUALITY;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 85010482255     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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