Adoption of requirements engineering practices in Malaysian software development companies

Communications in Computer and Information Science

Volumn 117 CCIS, Issue , 2010, Pages 141-150

  Solemon, Badariah ^a   Sahibuddin, Shamsul ^b   Ghani, Abdul Azim Abd ^c  

^a Universiti Tenaga Nasional   (Malaysia)

^b MALAYSIA JAPAN INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Malaysia)

^c UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

adoption; RE practices; Requirements Engineering (RE)

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION; CASE TOOLS; MALAYSIA; MALAYSIANS; PROJECT MANAGERS; RE PRACTICES; SELF-ADMINISTERED QUESTIONNAIRE; SOFTWARE DEVELOPER; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT;

ENGINEERING; INDUSTRY; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING; SURVEYS;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 78651067691     PISSN: 18650929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-17578-7_15     Document Type: Conference Paper

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