On the effectiveness of screen mockups in requirements engineering: Results from an internal replication

ESEM 2010 - Proceedings of the 2010 ACM-IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Ricca, Filippo ^a   Scanniello, Giuseppe ^b   Torchiano, Marco ^c   Reggio, Gianna ^a   Astesiano, Egidio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

^c POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

empirical studies; internal replication; screen mockups; use cases

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT; DATA ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENT; INTERNAL REPLICATION; SCREEN MOCKUPS; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS; UNDERSTANDABILITY; USE CASES;

DATA REDUCTION; MOCKUPS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 78149262236     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1852786.1852809     Document Type: Conference Paper

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