• DocumentCode
    1367662
  • Title

    The impact of tools on software productivity

  • Author

    Bruckhaus, T. ; Madhavii, N.H. ; Janssen, Ingrid ; Henshaw, John

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Sci., McGill Univ., Montreal, Que., Canada
  • Volume
    13
  • Issue
    5
  • fYear
    1996
  • fDate
    9/1/1996 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    29
  • Lastpage
    38
  • Abstract
    It is common knowledge that to stay competitive, your software organization must continuously improve product quality and customer satisfaction, as well as lower software development costs and shorten delivery time. The paper considers how software tools are an effective way to improve software development variables such as productivity and product quality. It considers software tool selection and process improvement costs
  • Keywords
    human resource management; software cost estimation; software quality; software selection; software tools; business competition; customer satisfaction; process improvement costs; product delivery time; product quality; software development costs; software organization; software productivity; software tool selection; software tools; Capability maturity model; Collaborative software; Costs; Customer satisfaction; Knowledge engineering; Productivity; Programming; Software quality; Software tools; Testing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Software, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0740-7459
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/52.536456
  • Filename
    536456