An empirical study of industrial requirements engineering process assessment and improvement

ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 85-117

  Sommerville, Ian ^a   Ransom, Jane ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Empirical software engineering; Process measurement; Requirements engineering; Software process improvement

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICIAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; PROCESS MEASUREMENT; SELF-AWARENESS; SOFTWARE PROCESS IMPROVEMENT;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; PRODUCTIVITY; QUALITY CONTROL; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SPECIFICATIONS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING;

EID: 13844298039     PISSN: 1049331X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1044834.1044837     Document Type: Article

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