An Empirical Study on the Impact of Automation on the Requirements Analysis Process  

作　　者：Giuseppe Lami Robert W.Ferguson 

机构地区：[1]Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione"Alessandro Faedo" 1-56124 Pisa,Italy [2]Software Engineering Institute Carnegie Mellon University,15213 Pittsburgh,PA,U.S.A.

出　　处：《Journal of Computer Science & Technology》2007年第3期338-347,共10页计算机科学技术学报（英文版）

摘　　要：Requirements analysis is an important phase in a software project. The analysis is often performed in an informal way by specialists who review documents looking for ambiguities, technical inconsistencies and incomplete parts. Automation is still far from being applied in requirements analyses, above all since natural languages are informal and thus difficult to treat automatically. There are only a few tools that can analyse texts. One of them, called QuARS, was developed by the Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell＇Informazione and can analyse texts in terms of ambiguity. This paper describes how QuARS was used in a formal empirical experiment to assess the impact in terms of effectiveness and efficacy of the automation in the requirements review process of a software company.Requirements analysis is an important phase in a software project. The analysis is often performed in an informal way by specialists who review documents looking for ambiguities, technical inconsistencies and incomplete parts. Automation is still far from being applied in requirements analyses, above all since natural languages are informal and thus difficult to treat automatically. There are only a few tools that can analyse texts. One of them, called QuARS, was developed by the Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell＇Informazione and can analyse texts in terms of ambiguity. This paper describes how QuARS was used in a formal empirical experiment to assess the impact in terms of effectiveness and efficacy of the automation in the requirements review process of a software company.

关 键 词：requirements/specifications analysis requirements/specifications tools process metrics 

分 类 号：TP311.52[自动化与计算机技术—计算机软件与理论]