Handling requirements dependencies in agile projects: A focus group with agile software development practitioners

Proceedings - International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Martakis, Aias ^a   Daneva, Maya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

agile requirements engineering; agile software development; cross cutting concerns; focus groups; grounded theory; qualitative research; requirements dependencies

Indexed keywords

AGILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; CROSS-CUTTING CONCERNS; FOCUS GROUPS; GROUNDED THEORY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REQUIREMENTS DEPENDENCIES;

INFORMATION SCIENCE; RESEARCH; RISK MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

GROUP THEORY;

EID: 84884148450     PISSN: 21511349     EISSN: 21511357     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RCIS.2013.6577679     Document Type: Conference Paper

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