Characteristics of new requirements in the presence or absence of an existing system architecture

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Requirements Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 5-14

  Miller, James A ^a   Ferrari, Remo ^a   Madhavji, Nazim H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS GOALS; END USERS; EXISTING SYSTEMS; SCIENTIFIC STUDIES;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING;

SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 73549105226     PISSN: 1090705X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RE.2009.45     Document Type: Conference Paper

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