Concepts for incremental method evolution: Empirical exploration and validation in requirements management

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

Volumn 4495 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 469-484

  Van De Weerd, Inge ^a   Brinkkemper, Sjaak ^a   Versendaal, Johan ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Incremental method evolution; Meta modeling; Method engineering; Root cause analysis; Software process improvement

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMAL MAPPING; FAILURE ANALYSIS; METADATA;

INCREMENTAL METHOD EVOLUTION; ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE PROCESS IMPROVEMENT;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 38049089878     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-72988-4_33     Document Type: Conference Paper

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