An empirical study on the importance of quality requirements in industry

SEKE 2011 - Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 438-443

  De La Vara, Jose Luis ^a   Wnuk, Krzysztof ^b   Svensson, Richard Berntsson ^b   Sánchez, Juan ^a   Regnell, Björn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Empirical study; Industry; Non functional requirement; Quality requirement; Requirements engineering; Survey

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION DOMAINS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; NON-FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PRODUCT MANAGER; PROJECT LEADERS; QUALITY REQUIREMENT; QUALITY REQUIREMENTS; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INDUSTRY; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING; SURVEYS;

ENGINEERING;

EID: 84855522301     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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