Software Requirements Parts for Construction of Software Requirements Specifications

Yoshitaka Iyoda, Atsushi Ohnishi

2013

Abstract

In software developments, a software requirements specification (SRS) must be correctly specified. An SRS becomes large and complicated when system to be developed become large. It takes a lot of efforts and costs to newly specify a correct SRS. The authors propose a method for generating SRS parts. Using SRS parts an SRS can be easily constructed. First a domain expert decomposes an SRS into functional requirements, and then he/she derives parts of functional requirements from them SRS. In order to improve the reusability, derived SRS parts will be abstracted using a thesaurus. The authors have been developed a prototype system for abstracting SRS parts. The proposed method will be illustrated with examples and evaluated through an experiment.

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Iyoda Y. and Ohnishi A. (2013). Software Requirements Parts for Construction of Software Requirements Specifications . In Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT-EA, (ICSOFT 2013) ISBN 978-989-8565-68-6, pages 147-153. DOI: 10.5220/0004479901470153


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@conference{icsoft-ea13,
author={Yoshitaka Iyoda and Atsushi Ohnishi},
title={Software Requirements Parts for Construction of Software Requirements Specifications},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT-EA, (ICSOFT 2013)},
year={2013},
pages={147-153},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004479901470153},
isbn={978-989-8565-68-6},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT-EA, (ICSOFT 2013)
TI - Software Requirements Parts for Construction of Software Requirements Specifications
SN - 978-989-8565-68-6
AU - Iyoda Y.
AU - Ohnishi A.
PY - 2013
SP - 147
EP - 153
DO - 10.5220/0004479901470153