Comparing inspection strategies for software requirement specifications

Proceedings - 1996 Australian Software Engineering Conference, ASWEC 1996

Volumn , Issue , 1996, Pages 203-211

  Cheng, Benjamin ^a   Jeffery, Ross ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORMAL SPECIFICATION; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING;

DECOMPOSITION PROCESS; DECOMPOSITION STRATEGY; EXPERIENCED PEOPLE; INSPECTION STRATEGY; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; SCENARIO TECHNIQUE; SOFTWARE REQUIREMENT SPECIFICATION; SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS;

INSPECTION;

EID: 85019181894     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASWEC.1996.534137     Document Type: Conference Paper

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