An Empirical Investigation of Vendor Readiness to Assess Offshore Software Maintenance Outsourcing Project |
Ikram, Atif
(School of Informatics and Applied Mathematics, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu)
Jalil, Masita Abdul (School of Informatics and Applied Mathematics, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu) Ngah, Amir Bin (School of Informatics and Applied Mathematics, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu) Khan, Ahmad Salman (Department of Software Engineering, The University of Lahore) Mahmood, Yasir (Department of Software Engineering, The University of Lahore) |
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