An Industrial Case Study of Immediate Benefits of Requirements Engineering Process Improvement at the Australian Center for Unisys Software

Empirical Software Engineering

Volumn 9, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 45-75

  Damian, Daniela ^a   Zowghi, Didar ^b   Vaidyanathasamy, Lakshminarayanan ^c   Pal, Yogendra ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c Unisys   (United States)

Author keywords

Empirical assessment; Industrial case study; Process improvement; Requirements engineering

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING RESEARCH; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROCESS CONTROL; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; QUALITY CONTROL; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; STANDARDS;

CAPABILITY MATURITY MODELS (CMM); EMPIRICAL ASSESSMENT; INDUSTRIAL CASE STUDY; PROCESS IMPROVEMENT;

REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING;

EID: 1442356958     PISSN: 13823256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/b:emse.0000013514.19567.ad     Document Type: Conference Paper

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