Concept mapping as a means of requirements tracing

2010 3rd International Workshop on Managing Requirements Knowledge, MaRK'10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 22-31

  Kof, Leonid ^a   Gacitua, Ricardo ^b   Rouncefield, Mark ^b   Sawyer, Pete ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTION LEVEL; APPLICATION DOMAINS; CONCEPT MAPPING; LEVELS OF ABSTRACTION; REAL-WORLD; REQUIREMENTS DOCUMENT;

ABSTRACTING;

EID: 78650475021     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MARK.2010.5623813     Document Type: Conference Paper

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