Using occurrence properties of defect report data to improve requirements

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Requirements Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 253-262

  Wasson, Kimberly S ^a   Schmidt, Kendra N ^b   Lutz, Robyn R ^b   Knight, John C ^a  

^a University of Virginia   (United States)

^b Iowa State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DATA REDUCTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; QUERY LANGUAGES;

DEFECT REPORTS; LINGUISTIC THEORY; NATURAL LANGUAGES;

REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING;

EID: 27644527119     PISSN: 1090705X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/re.2005.77     Document Type: Conference Paper

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