Tool-Guided, Domain-Specific, Systematic Requirements Management
Date | 1 Jun 2010 - 4 Jun 2010 |
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Event | DASIA 2010 |
Location | Budapest, Hungary |
The importance of the quality of requirements for
successful execution and completion of a project from a
technical and contractual point of view is being
recognized more and more. Many methods are targeted
to improve the support for collecting requirements
while still focusing on natural language. However, the
ambiguities in the semantics of natural language are the
biggest obstacles towards success. The approach
presented in this paper focuses on the elements of a
domain while keeping the expressiveness of natural
names and terms and introducing clear semantics. This
brings the advantage that immediate verification of the
human-provided inputs is possible, immediate
contributions to validation are available and
inconsistencies can be detected by a tool immediately.
This leads to guidance of an engineer by a tool towards
consistent, complete and correct requirements -
requirements of high quality - and eases maintenance
for the same reasons. As most of the complexity is
handled by the tool due to its good knowledge on the
domain, the approach is scalable towards large
specifications. Several examples of application domains
are described which illustrate the universality and
feasibility of the approach across domain boundaries.
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