Quality Measurement of Functional Requirements

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68407700%3A21240%2F23%3A00367135" target="_blank" >RIV/68407700:21240/23:00367135 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.5220/0012148700003538" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.5220/0012148700003538</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5220/0012148700003538" target="_blank" >10.5220/0012148700003538</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Quality Measurement of Functional Requirements

Original language description

In this contribution, we propose a metric to measure the quality of textual functional requirements specifications. Since the main problem of such requirements specifications is their ambiguity, incompleteness, and inconsistency, we developed textual patterns to reveal shortcomings in these properties. As a component of our analysis, we use not only the text of the requirements but also the UML model that we construct during the text analysis. Combining the results of part-of-speech tagging of the text and the modeled properties, we are able to identify a number of irregularities concerning the properties named above. Then, the text needs human intervention to correct or remove the suspicious formulations. As a measure of the requirements specification quality, we denote the number of necessary human interventions. We implemented a tool called TEMOS that can test ambiguity, incompleteness, and inconsistency, and we use its results to evaluate the quality of textual requirements. In this paper, we summarize our project results.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Software Technologies

ISBN

978-989-758-665-1

ISSN

2184-2833

e-ISSN

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Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

736-743

Publisher name

SciTePress - Science and Technology Publications

Place of publication

Porto

Event location

Rome

Event date

Jul 10, 2023

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

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