Evaluating the completeness and granularity of functional requirements specifications: A controlled experiment

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Requirements Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 161-170

  España, Sergio ^a   Condori Fernandez, Nelly ^a   González, Arturo ^a   Pastor, Óscar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION ANALYSIS; CONCEPTUAL MODEL QUALITY; CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT; EMPIRICAL VALIDATION; FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENT; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; REFERENCE MODELS; REQUIREMENTS MODELS;

EXPERIMENTS; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING; SPECIFICATIONS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 73549107883     PISSN: 1090705X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RE.2009.33     Document Type: Conference Paper

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