Systematic development of requirements documentation for general purpose scientific computing software

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Requirements Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 209-218

  Smith, Spencer ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; NATURAL SCIENCES COMPUTING; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS (AHP); REQUIREMENTS DOCUMENTATION; SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SOFTWARE;

REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING;

EID: 41149155061     PISSN: 1090705X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RE.2006.61     Document Type: Conference Paper

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