The NERV methodology: A lightweight process for addressing non-functional requirements in agile software development

Conference Proceedings - IEEE SOUTHEASTCON

Volumn 2015-June, Issue June, 2015, Pages

  Domah, Darshan ^a   Mitropoulos, Frank J ^a  

^a NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agile software development; Agile user stories; functional requirements; NERV Methodology; NFR; NFR Elicitation Taxonomy; NFR Quantification Taxonomy; NFR Reasoning Taxonomy; NFRusCOM; non functional requirements; Scrum

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

AGILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; AGILE USER STORY; FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENT; NERV METHODOLOGY; NFRUSCOM; NON-FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENT ELICITATION TAXONOMY; NON-FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENT QUANTIFICATION TAXONOMY; NON-FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENT REASONING TAXONOMY; NON-FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS; REQUIREMENTS ELICITATION; REQUIREMENTS REASONING; SCRA; USER STORIES;

TAXONOMIES;

EID: 84938118274     PISSN: 10910050     EISSN: 1558058X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SECON.2015.7133028     Document Type: Conference Paper

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