Software quality requirements: A systematic mapping study

Proceedings - Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, APSEC

Volumn 1, Issue , 2013, Pages 231-238

  Ouhbi, Sofia ^a   Idri, Ali ^a   Fernández Alemán, Jose Luis ^b   Toval, Ambrosio ^b  

^a Mohammed V University in Rabat   (Morocco)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Requirement engineering; Software quality requirements; Systematic mapping study

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; MAPPING; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING;

DOMINANT CONTRIBUTIONS; MULTIPLE CRITERIA; REQUIREMENT ENGINEERING; REQUIREMENTS DOCUMENTATIONS; RESEARCH APPROACH; SOFTWARE ARTIFACTS; SOFTWARE QUALITY; SYSTEMATIC MAPPING STUDIES;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84933501221     PISSN: 15301362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APSEC.2013.40     Document Type: Conference Paper

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