Keeping requirements on track via visual analytics

2013 21st IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, RE 2013 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 205-214

  Niu, Nan ^a   Reddivari, Sandeep ^a   Chen, Zhangji ^a  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Requirements engineering visualization; Requirements management; Visual analytical reasoning

Indexed keywords

TOOLS; VISUALIZATION;

ANALYTICAL REASONING; EFFICIENT PATH; INTERACTIVITY; REQUIREMENTS MANAGEMENT; REQUIREMENTS VISUALIZATION; SOFTWARE PROJECT; TOOL SUPPORT; VISUAL ANALYTICS;

REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING;

EID: 84891074608     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RE.2013.6636720     Document Type: Conference Paper

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