Improving software quality from the requirements specification

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 364, Issue , 2008, Pages 38-39

  Eckroth, Joshua ^a   Amoussou, Guy Alain ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Functional requirements; Hypernyms; Information entropy; Information theory; Requirements engineering; Requirements metrics; Software quality

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONAL MODELING; FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENT; HYPERNYMS; INFORMATION ENTROPY; REQUIREMENTS SPECIFICATIONS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; SOFTWARE LIFE CYCLES; SOFTWARE QUALITY; SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS;

DESIGN; ENTROPY; INFORMATION THEORY; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SPECIFICATIONS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 77953755179     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1496630.1496651     Document Type: Conference Paper

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