Estimation support by lexical analysis of requirements documents

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 87-98

  Bowden, P ^a   Hargreaves, M ^b   Langensiepen, C S ^a  

^a NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Reuters   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ESTIMATION; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

DRAFT REQUIREMENTS; LEXICAL ANALYSIS;

REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING;

EID: 0033906746     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0164-1212(99)00114-4     Document Type: Article

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