A specification pattern for use cases

Information and Management

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 961-975

  Díaz, Isabel ^a,b   Losavio, Francisca ^a   Matteo, Alfredo ^a   Pastor, Oscar ^b  

^a FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS   (Venezuela)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Information systems development; Requirements determination; Requirements elicitation; Requirements specification; Use case; Use case model; Use case specification

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; AUTOMATION; BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS; FORMAL LANGUAGES; ITERATIVE METHODS; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING; SEMANTICS; TERMINOLOGY;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT; REQUIREMENTS DETERMINATION; REQUIREMENTS ELICITATION; REQUIREMENTS SPECIFICATION; USE CASE; USE CASE MODELS; USE CASE SPECIFICATIONS;

SYSTEM PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION;

EID: 4344634835     PISSN: 03787206     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.im.2003.10.003     Document Type: Article

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