EPC vs. UML activity diagram - Two experiments examining their usefulness for requirements engineering

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Requirements Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 47-56

  Gross, Anne ^a   Doerr, Joerg ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER IESE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Event driven process chain; Experiment; Process modeling; Requirements specification; UML activity diagram

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS PROCESS; BUSINESS PROCESS MODELING; END USERS; EVENT-DRIVEN PROCESS CHAIN; MODEL CREATION; PROCESS MODELING; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UML ACTIVITY DIAGRAMS; UNDERSTANDABILITY;

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING; SPECIFICATIONS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 73549117012     PISSN: 1090705X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RE.2009.30     Document Type: Conference Paper

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