Cost and benefit analysis of quality requirements in competitive software product management: A case study on the QUPER model

2010 4th International Workshop on Software Product Management, IWSPM 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 40-48

  Svensson, Richard Berntsson ^a   Sprockel, Yuri ^b   Regnell, Björn ^a   Brinkkemper, Sjaak ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Empirical; Quality requirements; QUPER; Release planning

Indexed keywords

COST AND BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL; MARKET SITUATION; MARKET-DRIVEN PRODUCTS; PRODUCT ENHANCEMENTS; QUALITY PERFORMANCE; QUALITY REQUIREMENTS; QUPER; RELEASE PLANNING; SOFTWARE PRODUCT MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE PRODUCTS;

COMMERCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; INVESTMENTS; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; QUALITY CONTROL;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

EID: 78650354542     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IWSPM.2010.5623867     Document Type: Conference Paper

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