Quality Certification in Requirements Engineering

  • Edna Pacheco Zanlorenci PUC-PR / CELEPAR
  • Robert Carlisle Burnett PUC-PR

Abstract


The excellency to the quality certification is one of the organizations’ goals. In the global world, competitiveness is a survival factor in business. In the software area it is not different, either in the academic, industry, research & development or market scenery. For the Requirements Engineering (RE) the question is: How to ensure that processes and products have the quality assurance required and adjusted to the stakeholder´s priorities? The article proposal is to approach the RE processes and techniques, in the project life-cycle phases, through systematic application of a script and a checklist in the processes, to be able for validate products and to promote the quality certification in RE.

Keywords: certification, life-cycle, model, process, quality, Requirements Engineering

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Published
2002-10-14
ZANLORENCI, Edna Pacheco; BURNETT, Robert Carlisle. Quality Certification in Requirements Engineering. In: BRAZILIAN SOFTWARE QUALITY SYMPOSIUM (SBQS), 1. , 2002, Gramado-RS. Anais [...]. Porto Alegre: Sociedade Brasileira de Computação, 2002 . p. 71-86. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/sbqs.2002.16217.