Empirical studies of software engineering: A roadmap

Proceedings of the Conference on the Future of Software Engineering, ICSE 2000

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 345-355

  Perry, Dewayne E ^a   Porter, Adam A ^b   Votta, Lawrence G ^c  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c MOTOROLA INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Empirical studies; Software engineering

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING;

CURRENT SITUATION; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH IN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; GENERAL STRUCTURES; ROADMAP;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 85010558621     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/336512.336586     Document Type: Conference Paper

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