Towards a model about quality of software requirements specification in agile projects

Proceedings - 2016 10th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology, QUATIC 2016

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 236-241

  Medeiros, Juliana ^a   Goulao, Miguel ^b   Vasconcelos, Alexandre ^c   Silva, Carla ^c  

^a Science and Technology of Paraíba IFPB   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Agile Methods; Empirical Study; Quality Factor; Requirements Specification

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; FORMAL SPECIFICATION; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SPECIFICATIONS;

AGILE METHODS; AGILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; QUALITY FACTORS; REQUIREMENTS SPECIFICATIONS; SOFTWARE ORGANIZATION; SYSTEMATIC MAPPING STUDIES;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 85013748664     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/QUATIC.2016.058     Document Type: Conference Paper

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