How requirements specification quality depends on tools: A case study

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3084, Issue , 2004, Pages 353-367

  Matulevicius, Raimundas ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPECIFICATIONS;

AUTOMATED SUPPORT; COMPLEX ACTIVITY; MODELLING TOOLS; QUALITATIVE PROPERTIES; REQUIREMENTS DOCUMENT; REQUIREMENTS SPECIFICATIONS;

REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING;

EID: 35048874145     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-25975-6_26     Document Type: Article

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