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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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Basili, V.R. (1993). The Experience Factory and its relationship to other Improvement Paradigms. In: Sommerville, I., Paul, M. (eds) Software Engineering — ESEC '93. ESEC 1993. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 717. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-57209-0_6
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