Quality and understandability of use case models

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

Volumn 2072 LNCS, Issue , 2001, Pages 402-428

  Anda, Bente ^a   Sjøberg, Dag ^a,b   Jørgensen, Magne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b SIMULA RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Experiment; Object oriented analysis; Requirements specification; UML; Understandability; Use Cases

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; SPECIFICATIONS; STUDENTS;

DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; DEVELOPMENT PROJECT; FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENT; INFORMAL REQUIREMENTS; OBJECT-ORIENTED ANALYSIS; REQUIREMENTS SPECIFICATIONS; UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS; UNDERSTANDABILITY;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 84881391264     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45337-7_21     Document Type: Conference Paper

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