Scaling up requirements engineering - Exploring the challenges of increasing size and complexity in market-driven software development

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6606 LNCS, Issue , 2011, Pages 54-59

  Wnuk, Krzysztof ^a   Regnell, Björn ^a   Berenbach, Brian ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

case study; market driven requirements engineering; requirements challenges; scalability; very large scale requirements engineering

Indexed keywords

CASE STUDY; MARKET-DRIVEN REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING; MARKET-DRIVEN SOFTWARES; PRODUCT COMPLEXITY; RELEASE PLANNING; REQUIREMENTS CHALLENGES; SCALABILITY ISSUE; SCALE-UP; SCALING-UP; SCOPING; SOFTWARE COMPANY; VERY LARGE-SCALE REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING;

COMMERCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; ENGINEERING; SCALABILITY; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING;

EID: 79953099804     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-19858-8_6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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