Perspectives on requirements understandability - for whom does the teacher's bell toll?

2008 Requirements Engineering Education and Training, REET'08

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 22-29

  Svahnberg, Mikael ^a   Gorschek, Tony ^a   Borg, Andreas ^b   Sandahl, Kristian ^b   Eriksson, Magnus ^c   Börster, Jürgen ^d   Loconsole, Annabella ^d  

^a BLEKINGE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c Land Systems Hägglunds AB   (Sweden)

^d UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; MANAGERS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

DECISION MAKERS; INDUSTRY MANAGERS; INFORMATION SOURCES; REQUIREMENTS SPECIFICATIONS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPER; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT CYCLES; TRAINING STUDENTS; UNDERSTANDABILITY;

PERSONNEL TRAINING;

EID: 64849088880     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/REET.2008.4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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