DocumentCode
3169909
Title
Hard Facts vs Soft Facts
Author
Blasband, Darius
fYear
2008
fDate
15-18 Oct. 2008
Firstpage
301
Lastpage
304
Abstract
This paper aims at describing a serious misconception commonly found in the academic world when it comes to understanding the motivations of a commercial stakeholder when he or she purchases services or products related to source code analysis and/or transformation. This misconception is related to the perceived relative importance of hard and soft facts.
Keywords
purchasing; software maintenance; product purchases; service purchases; source code analysis; Databases; Documentation; Guidelines; Information systems; Investments; Mission critical systems; Reverse engineering; Standards development; Standards organizations; Transportation; Migration; ROI;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Reverse Engineering, 2008. WCRE '08. 15th Working Conference on
Conference_Location
Antwerp
ISSN
1095-1350
Print_ISBN
978-0-7695-3429-9
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/WCRE.2008.24
Filename
4656422
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