Quality function deployment usage in software development

Communications of the ACMPublished 1 January 1996Open access

Stephen Haag, M. K. Raja, Lawrence L. Schkade

DOI10.1145/234173.234178

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The authors survey major software vendors' use of quality improvement techniques during the early stages of the system development life cycle to find out whether these techniques are being used or not.

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article Free Access Share on Quality function deployment usage in software development Authors: Stephen Haag Univ. of Denver, Denver, CO Univ. of Denver, Denver, COView Profile , M. K. Raja Univ. of Texas, Arlington Univ. of Texas, ArlingtonView Profile , L. L. Schkade Univ. of Texas, Arlington Univ. of Texas, ArlingtonView Profile Authors Info & Claims Communications of the ACMVolume 39Issue 1Jan. 1996 pp 41–49https://doi.org/10.1145/234173.234178Published:01 January 1996Publication History 93citation4,844DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations93Total Downloads4,844Last 12 Months165Last 6 weeks26 Get Citation AlertsNew Citation Alert added!This alert has been successfully added and will be sent to:You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.To manage your alert preferences, click on the button below.Manage my Alerts New Citation Alert!Please log in to your account Save to BinderSave to BinderCreate a New BinderNameCancelCreateExport CitationPublisher SiteeReaderPDF

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