Scenario-based assessment of nonfunctional requirements

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 392-409

  Gregoriades, Andreas ^a   Sutcliffe, Alistair ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayesian belief networks; Nonfunctional requirements validation; Scenario based testing; Systems engineering

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BENCHMARKING; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RELIABILITY THEORY; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

BAYESIAN BELIEF NETWORKS; NONFUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS VALIDATION; SCENARIO-BASED TESTING; SYSTEM RELIABILITY; SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS ANALYZER (SRA);

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 22944481463     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2005.59     Document Type: Article

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