An industrial case study of the impact of requirements engineering on downstream development

Proceedings - 2003 International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering, ISESE 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 40-49

  Damian, D ^a   Chisan, J ^a   Vaidyanathsamy, L ^b   Pal, Y ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b Unisys   (United States)

Author keywords

Documentation; Engineering management; Industrial relations; Life testing; Productivity; Programming; Project management; Software development management; Software engineering; Software testing

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS; LIFE CYCLE; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; PRODUCTIVITY; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE TESTING; SYSTEM PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION;

DOCUMENTATION OF SOFTWARE; ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT; INDUSTRIAL CASE STUDY; INDUSTRIAL PRACTICES; LIFE-TESTING; REQUIREMENTS MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE ORGANIZATION;

PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

EID: 11244332742     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISESE.2003.1237963     Document Type: Conference Paper

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