Evaluating two ways of calculating priorities in requirements hierarchies - An experiment on hierarchical cumulative voting

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 836-850

  Berander, Patrik ^a   Svahnberg, Mikael ^a  

^a BLEKINGE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Compensation factor; Empirical experiment; Requirements hierarchies; Requirements prioritization

Indexed keywords

HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS;

ACCURACY; COMPENSATION FACTOR; EMPIRICAL EXPERIMENT; REQUIREMENTS HIERARCHIES; REQUIREMENTS PRIORITIZATION;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 62849086118     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2008.11.841     Document Type: Article

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