A systematic review of software requirements selection and prioritization using SBSE approaches

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

Volumn 8084 LNCS, Issue , 2013, Pages 188-208

  Pitangueira, Antônio Mauricio ^a,c   Maciel, Rita Suzana P ^a   De Oliveira Barros, Márcio ^b   Andrade, Aline Santos ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA   (Brazil)

^b Post graduate Information Systems Program   (Brazil)

^c Federal Institute of Bahia   (Brazil)

Author keywords

requirement prioritization; requirements selection; systematic review

Indexed keywords

PRIORITIZATION; QUALITY CRITERIA; REQUIREMENTS SELECTIONS; SEARCH STRATEGIES; SEARCH-BASED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE RELEASE; SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING;

EID: 84884960796     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-39742-4_15     Document Type: Conference Paper

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