Goal-centric traceability for managing non-functional requirements

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 362-371

  Cleland Huang, Jane ^a   Settimi, Raffaella ^a   BenKhadra, Oussama ^a   Berezhanskaya, Eugenia ^a   Christina, Selvia ^a  

^a DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Impact analysis; Link retrieval; Non functional requirements; System quality; Traceability

Indexed keywords

IMPACT ANALYSIS; LINK RETRIEVAL; NON-FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS; SYSTEM QUALITY; TRACEABILITY;

DECISION MAKING; GRAPH THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 27644497891     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSE.2005.1553579     Document Type: Conference Paper

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