Using business process models to better understand the dependencies among user stories

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 71, Issue , 2016, Pages 58-76

  Trkman, Marina ^a   Mendling, Jan ^b   Krisper, Marjan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

Author keywords

Context; Execution order dependency; Experiment; Integration dependency; User story

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; INTEGRATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

AGILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS; CONTEXT; EXECUTION ORDER DEPENDENCY; EXPLICIT REPRESENTATION; REQUIREMENT DEPENDENCIES; SITUATIONAL METHOD ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS; USER STORIES;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 84952802629     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2015.10.006     Document Type: Article

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