Requirements for tools for ambiguity identification and measurement in natural language requirements specifications

Kiyavitskaya, Nadzeya; Zeni, Nicola; Mich, Luisa; Berry, Daniel M.

doi:10.1007/s00766-008-0063-7

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“…It depends both on the imprecision of words and grammatical constructions or context [55]. Moreover, lack of precision, as in the sentence "corrective action should be started as soon as possible", may even occur in not totally accurate quality documents.…”

Section: Quality and Informationmentioning

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“…Moreover, lack of precision, as in the sentence "corrective action should be started as soon as possible", may even occur in not totally accurate quality documents. Therefore, in order to decrease the level of uncertainty, it is important firstly to scrutinise QMS documents for ambiguity, "manually" or, better, with the help of dedicated software, capable of identifying and indexing ambiguities [55,56].…”

Section: Quality and Informationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Quality Systems. A Thermodynamics-Related Interpretive Model

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2017

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Abstract:In the present paper, a Quality Systems Theory is presented. Certifiable Quality Systems are treated and interpreted in accordance with a Thermodynamics-based approach. Analysis is also conducted on the relationship between Quality Management Systems (QMSs) and systems theories. A measure of entropy is proposed for QMSs, including a virtual document entropy and an entropy linked to processes and organisation. QMSs are also interpreted in light of Cybernetics, and interrelations between Information Theory and quality are also highlighted. A measure for the information content of quality documents is proposed. Such parameters can be used as adequacy indices for QMSs. From the discussed approach, suggestions for organising QMSs are also derived. Further interpretive thermodynamic-based criteria for QMSs are also proposed. The work represents the first attempt to treat quality organisational systems according to a thermodynamics-related approach. At this stage, no data are available to compare statements in the paper.

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Section: Quality and Informationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Quality Systems. A Thermodynamics-Related Interpretive Model

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2017

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“…Additionally, some researchers have attempted to tackle implicit requirements by resolving ambiguity in requirements specifications. Instances of these include [19,20,21,22]. However, so far in the literature, there are not many empirical studies that focussed specifically on the issue of implicit requirements within software organisations.…”

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“…These include [3,12,13,14], which considered how to identify and handle IMR. The works in [8,15,16,17,18] focussed on dealing with tacit/implicit knowledge in requirements; while [9,19,20,21,22] dealt with handling ambiguity in requirements.…”

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A survey on implicit requirements management practices in small and medium-sized enterprises

2017

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Preliminary communicationEffective requirements management that embraces both explicit and implicit aspects is a prerequisite for successful software development. Although different researchers and practitioners have identified the importance of implicit requirements (IMR) for overall successful outcome of software development, there is a need to correlate these theoretical assumptions about implicit requirements with the state of the practice. This paper empirically investigates the perception and handling of implicit requirements in small and medium-sized software organisations. The survey was undertaken through a web-based questionnaire to which 56 participants from 23 countries responded. The study found that critical organisational factors such as number of years in business of an organisation, the years of experience of an organisation in requirements engineering, and size of software development team have positive correlation with the perception and handling of implicit requirements within an organisation. It also recommends that a comparative evaluation of the existing support tools for implicit requirements is necessary in order to validate the potential of these tools to solve existing challenges, and determine gaps that still exist. Keywords: empirical survey; implicit requirements; requirements engineering; requirements management; software organisations Anketa o načinu upravljanja bezuvjetnim zahtjevima u malim i srednje malim poduzećimaPrethodno priopćenje Učinkovito upravljanje zahtjevima koje uključuje i izričita i bezuvjetna motrišta pretpostavka je za uspješni razvoj softvera. Iako su razni istraživači i praktičari prepoznali važnost bezuvjetnih zahtjeva (implicit requirements -IMR) za opći uspjeh razvijenog softvera, potrebno je povezati te teorijske pretpostavke oko bezuvjetnih zahtjeva s postojećim stanjem. U radu se provodi empirijsko istraživanje o shvaćanju i provođenju bezuvjetnih zahtjeva u malim i srednje malim organizacijama koje se bave razvojem softvera. Provedena je anketa preko interneta na koju je stiglo 56 odgovora iz 23 zemlje. Analiza je pokazala da se kritički organizacijski čimbenici kao što su broj godina provedenih na poslu u nekoj organizaciji, godine iskustva organizacije u inženjeringu zahtjeva i veličina tima koji se bavi razvojem softvera pozitivno odražavaju na sagledavanje i pristup bezuvjetnim zahtjevima u okviru organizacije. Izražava se potreba za komparativnom procjenom postojećih alata podrške bezuvjetnim zahtjevima kako bi se potvrdio potencijal tih alata u rješavanju postojećih izazova i popunjavanju nedostataka koji još postoje. Ključne

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“…Few articles broach the topic of contradictions in natural language [7,10]. However, much research attempts to diagnose quality defects by using NLP and text mining techniques [11][12][13][14][15][16][17]. Recent work has been done to classify requirements thanks to machine learning [18] or linguistics analysis [16].…”

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A Collaborative Requirement Mining Framework to Support OEMs

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Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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is an open access repository that collects the work of Arts et Métiers ParisTech researchers and makes it freely available over the web where possible. Abstract. With the fastidiously ever-increasing complexity of systems, the relentless, massive customisation of products and the mushrooming accumulation of legal documents (standards, policies and laws), we can observe a significant increase in requirements. We consider the tremendous volume of requirements as big data with which companies struggle to make strategic decisions early on. This paper proposes a collaborative requirement mining framework to enable the decision-makers of an Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) to gain insight and discover opportunities in a massive set of requirements so as to make early effective strategic decisions. The framework supports OEMs willing to uncover a subset of key requirements by distilling large unstructured and semi-structured specifications.

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Requirements for tools for ambiguity identification and measurement in natural language requirements specifications

Abstract: This paper proposes a two-step approach to identifying ambiguities in natural language (NL) requirements specifications (RSs

Cited by 104 publications

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Quality Systems. A Thermodynamics-Related Interpretive Model

Quality Systems. A Thermodynamics-Related Interpretive Model

A survey on implicit requirements management practices in small and medium-sized enterprises

A Collaborative Requirement Mining Framework to Support OEMs

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