Evaluating requirements modeling methods based on user perceptions: A family of experiments

Information Sciences

Volumn 181, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 3356-3378

  Abrahão, Silvia ^a   Insfran, Emilio ^a   Carsí, José Angel ^a   Genero, Marcela ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Controlled experiment; Method evaluation; Requirements modeling; RUP; Theoretical models

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT; METHOD EVALUATION; REQUIREMENTS MODELING; RUP; THEORETICAL MODELS;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 79957514843     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2011.04.005     Document Type: Article

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