USING LINGUISTIC PATTERNS FOR IMPROVING REQUIREMENTS SPECIFICATION

Carlos Videira, David Ferreira, Alberto Rodrigues da Silva

2006

Abstract

The lack of quality results in the development of information systems is certainly a good reason to justify the presentation of new research proposals, especially those that address the most critical areas of that process, such as the requirements specification task. In this paper, we describe how linguistic patterns can be used to improve the quality of requirements specifications, using them as the basis for a new requirements specification language, called ProjectIT-RSL, and how a series of validation mechanisms can be applied to guarantee the consistency and correctness of the written requirements with the syntactic and semantic rules of the language.

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Videira C., Ferreira D. and Rodrigues da Silva A. (2006). USING LINGUISTIC PATTERNS FOR IMPROVING REQUIREMENTS SPECIFICATION . In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT, ISBN 978-972-8865-69-6, pages 145-150. DOI: 10.5220/0001314301450150


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@conference{icsoft06,
author={Carlos Videira and David Ferreira and Alberto Rodrigues da Silva},
title={USING LINGUISTIC PATTERNS FOR IMPROVING REQUIREMENTS SPECIFICATION},
booktitle={Proceedings of the First International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT,},
year={2006},
pages={145-150},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001314301450150},
isbn={978-972-8865-69-6},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the First International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT,
TI - USING LINGUISTIC PATTERNS FOR IMPROVING REQUIREMENTS SPECIFICATION
SN - 978-972-8865-69-6
AU - Videira C.
AU - Ferreira D.
AU - Rodrigues da Silva A.
PY - 2006
SP - 145
EP - 150
DO - 10.5220/0001314301450150