On the perception of software quality requirements during the project lifecycle Roald van der Valk

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The Method Meant to study when and how specific aspects of software development are handled. In this case: software quality requirements Consists of 4 main phases ▫Select documents ▫Find signifiers ▫Extract relevant messages ▫Evaluate results

The Method’s Origins Based on earlier work ▫Same Authors ▫Focussed on non-functional requirements Neil A. Ernst ▫Software requirements John Mylopoulos ▫Requirements engineering, conceptual modelling

Related Literature Non-functional requirements ▫“The process of discovering, documenting and managing the requirements for a computer-based system” (Sommerville and Sawyer, 1997) Mining documents for requirements ▫Cleland-Huang, Settimi, Zou and Sole (2006) Improved signifier selection ▫Hindle, Ernst, Godfrey and Mylopoulos (2011)

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