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Identifying Requirements Conflicts and Cooperation: How Quality Attributes and Automated Traceability Can Help

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Alexander Egyed,

Paul GrunbacherAuthors Info & Claims

IEEE Software, Volume 21, Issue 6

Pages 50 - 58

https://doi.org/10.1109/MS.2004.40

Published: 01 November 2004 Publication History

Abstract

In software development and software maintenance, identifying conflicts and cooperation among existing and new requirements is an important challenge. Fortunately, quality attributes can help, and automated traceability techniques can efficiently eliminate falsely identified conflicts and cooperation. The authors demonstrate their approach in the context of a simple video-on-demand system.

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November 2004

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