An Industrial Case Study in Reconstructing Requirements Views

An Industrial Case Study in Reconstructing Requirements Views

Lormans, M.
Van Deursen, A.
Gross, H.G.

Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science

Software Computer Technology

2008-12-31

Preprint of article published in: Empirical Software Engineering (Springer), 13 (6), 2008; doi:10.1007/s10664-008-9078-4 Requirements views, such as coverage and status views, are an important asset for monitoring and managing software development projects. We have developed a method that automates the process of reconstructing these views, and we have built a tool, ReqAnalyst, that supports this method. This paper presents an investigation as to which extent requirements views can be automatically generated in order to monitor requirements in industrial practice. The paper focuses on monitoring the requirements in test categories and test cases. In order to retrieve the necessary data, an information retrieval technique, called Latent Semantic Indexing, was used. The method was applied in an industrial study. A number of requirements views were defined and experiments were carried out with different reconstruction settings for generating these views. Finally, we explored how these views can help the developers during the software development process.

requirements management
requirements traceability reconstruction
information retrieval

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Delft University of Technology, Software Engineering Research Group

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Technical Report Series TUD-SERG-2008-032

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