Quality Measurement of Functional Requirements

David Šenkýř, Petr Kroha

2023

Abstract

In this contribution, we propose a metric to measure the quality of textual functional requirements specifications. Since the main problem of such requirements specifications is their ambiguity, incompleteness, and inconsistency, we developed textual patterns to reveal shortcomings in these properties. As a component of our analysis, we use not only the text of the requirements but also the UML model that we construct during the text analysis. Combining the results of part-of-speech tagging of the text and the modeled properties, we are able to identify a number of irregularities concerning the properties named above. Then, the text needs human intervention to correct or remove the suspicious formulations. As a measure of the requirements specification quality, we denote the number of necessary human interventions. We implemented a tool called TEMOS that can test ambiguity, incompleteness, and inconsistency, and we use its results to evaluate the quality of textual requirements. In this paper, we summarize our project results.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Šenkýř D. and Kroha P. (2023). Quality Measurement of Functional Requirements. In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT; ISBN 978-989-758-665-1, SciTePress, pages 736-743. DOI: 10.5220/0012148700003538

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icsoft23,
author={David Šenkýř and Petr Kroha},
title={Quality Measurement of Functional Requirements},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT},
year={2023},
pages={736-743},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012148700003538},
isbn={978-989-758-665-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT
TI - Quality Measurement of Functional Requirements
SN - 978-989-758-665-1
AU - Šenkýř D.
AU - Kroha P.
PY - 2023
SP - 736
EP - 743
DO - 10.5220/0012148700003538
PB - SciTePress