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Software quality and the Capability Maturity Model

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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 40 , Issue 6 (June 1997) table of contents

Pages: 30 - 40

Year of Publication: 1997

ISSN:0001-0782

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James Herbsleb	Software Production Research Group, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Naperville, Ill.
David Zubrow	Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Dennis Goldenson	Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Will Hayes	Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Mark Paulk	Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pa.

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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