Requirements engineering and process modelling in software quality management - Towards a generic process metamodel

Software Quality Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 265-283

  Berki, Eleni ^a   Georgiadou, Elli ^b   Holcombe, Mike ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Method engineering; Process metamodelling; Requirements engineering; Software quality; Stakeholders

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; LINGUISTICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METADATA; PROCESS CONTROL; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

METHOD ENGINEERING; PROCESS METAMODELLING; SOFTWARE QUALTIY; STAKEHOLDER;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 3142676780     PISSN: 09639314     EISSN: 15731367     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:SQJO.0000034711.87241.f0     Document Type: Article

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