The Experience Factory and its relationship to other Improvement Paradigms
Lecture notes in computer sciencePublished 1 January 1993
Victor R. Basili
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The Quality Improvement Paradigm and the Experience Factory Organization are described as mechanisms for improving software development and the approach is compared with other improvement paradigms.
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This paper describes the Quality Improvement Paradigm and the Experience Factory Organization as mechanisms for improving software development. It compares the approach with other improvement paradigms.
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