Title: Social factor: an indispensable issue in web development process

Authors: Vidal Alonso Secades, Alberto Pedrero Esteban, Luis Joyanes Aguilar

Addresses: Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca, Compania, 5, 37002 Salamanca, Spain. ' Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca, Compania, 5, 37002 Salamanca, Spain. ' Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca, Campus Madrid, Paseo Juan XXIII, 3, 28040 Madrid, Spain

Abstract: The internet has led people to a change that must be faced by the software community. The previous working forms in software assurance were not sufficient to guarantee systems quality because it is necessary to consider the social factors of the virtual community in the development process and data system credibility.

Keywords: software quality; social factors; virtual communities; knowledge management; interaction; data credibility; web sources; web-based communities.

DOI: 10.1504/IJWBC.2005.006934

International Journal of Web Based Communities, 2005 Vol.1 No.3, pp.372 - 381

Published online: 25 Apr 2005 *

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