Visualizing non-functional requirements

First International Workshop on Visualization in Requirements Engineering, REV 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Ernst, Neil A ^a   Yu, Yijun ^a   Mylopoulos, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Non functional requirements; Performance; Quality attributes visualization; Tradeoffs; Trust

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; DATA VISUALIZATION; GRAPHIC METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING;

FUNCTIONAL ARTIFACTS; QUALITY ATTRIBUTES VISUALIZATION; TEXTUAL LANGUAGE; TRADEOFFS;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 34848909002     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/REV.2006.10     Document Type: Conference Paper

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