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Previous issue date: 2007 / The software market faces an increase in competitivity and in demands for software.
Enterprises are led to develop software targeted not only at specific customers but also
at huge consumer markets. Companies that deal with several consumer markets are
known in the literature as developers of Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS), also
called packaged software, product software or market-driven software.
COTS suppliers face many challenges and problems, mainly those known as Smallto-
Medium Enterprises (SME). Some special studies show that the unsuitability of
activities comprised by the Requirements Engineering Process is a critical factor for
software projects success.
Thus, this work presents an empirical study carried out with thirteen product software
companies located in Recife - Pernambuco, Brazil. The empirical study was based on
Experimental Software Engineering and on the qualitative paradigm, having as its
main goal an investigation about which practices are performed and the main
challenges and difficulties faced by Small-to-Medium Enterprises throughout the
Requirements Engineering process
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:IBICT/oai:repositorio.ufpe.br:123456789/2696 |
| Date | January 2007 |
| Creators | Cássia Pereira, Silvia |
| Contributors | Freire Brelaz de Castro, Jaelson |
| Publisher | Universidade Federal de Pernambuco |
| Source Sets | IBICT Brazilian ETDs |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion, info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Source | reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFPE, instname:Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, instacron:UFPE |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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