Quality requirements in practice: An interview study in requirements engineering for embedded systems

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

Volumn 5512 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 218-232

  Berntsson Svensson, Richard ^a   Gorschek, Tony ^b   Regnell, Björn ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b BLEKINGE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Empirical study; Market driven requirements engineering; Non functional requirements; Quality requirements; Requirements engineering

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITY; DOWN-STREAM; EMPIRICAL STUDY; INTERVIEW STUDY; MANAGEMENT OF QUALITIES; MARKET-DRIVEN REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING; NON-FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS; PRODUCT MANAGER; PROJECT LEADERS; QUALITY REQUIREMENTS; SOFTWARE COMPANY; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT;

COMMERCE; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; ENGINEERING; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 68749122159     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02050-6_19     Document Type: Conference Paper

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