Empirical evaluation and review of a metrics-based approach for use case verification

Journal of Research and Practice in Information Technology

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 247-258

  Bernárdez, Beatriz ^a   Durán, Amador ^a   Genero, Marcela ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; DATA ACQUISITION; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; STUDENTS; USER INTERFACES;

EMPIRICAL DATA; REQUIREMENT ENGINEERING; REQUIREMENT QUALITY ASSURANCE (RQA); USE CASES;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 8344244551     PISSN: 1443458X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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