Integrating collaborative processes and quality assurance techniques: Experiences from requirements negotiation

Journal of Management Information Systems

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 10-30

  Grünbacher, Paul ^a,b   Halling, Michael ^a,c   Biffl, Stefan ^d   Kitapci, Hasan ^b   Boehm, Barry W ^b  

^a JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

^b Univ of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Collaboration engineering; Group support system; Quality assurance techniques; Requirements negotiation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

COLLABORATION ENGINEERING; GROUP SUPPORT SYSTEMS; REQUIREMENTS NEGOTIATION;

REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING;

EID: 3142746122     PISSN: 07421222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07421222.2004.11045784     Document Type: Article

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