Setting quality targets for coming releases with QUPER: An industrial case study

Requirements Engineering

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 283-298

  Berntsson Svensson, Richard ^a   Sprockel, Yuri ^b   Regnell, Björn ^a   Brinkkemper, Sjaak ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Empirical; Quality requirements; QUPER; Release planning

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENT APPROACH; DEVELOPMENT PHASE; EMPIRICAL; INDUSTRIAL CASE STUDY; MARKET EXPECTATIONS; QUALITATIVE REASONING; QUALITY LEVELS; QUALITY PERFORMANCE; QUALITY REQUIREMENTS; QUALITY TARGETS; QUPER; RELEASE PLANNING;

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMMERCE; DECISION MAKING;

INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS;

EID: 84867888051     PISSN: 09473602     EISSN: 1432010X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00766-011-0125-0     Document Type: Article

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