Title :
Hard Facts vs Soft Facts
Author :
Blasband, Darius
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;
Conference_Titel :
Reverse Engineering, 2008. WCRE '08. 15th Working Conference on
Conference_Location :
Antwerp
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3429-9
DOI :
10.1109/WCRE.2008.24
