Guidelines for eliciting usability functionalities

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 744-758

  Juristo, Natalia ^a   Moreno, Ana Maria ^a   Sanchez Segura, Maria Isabel ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Requirements elicitation; Usability features elicitation; Usability requirements

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SYSTEM PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION;

ELICITATION PATTERNS; USABILITY FEATURES ELICITATION; USABILITY REQUIREMENTS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY;

EID: 35349018457     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2007.70741     Document Type: Article

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