Experiences on analysis of requirements quality

Petra Heck; Päivi Parviainen

doi:10.1109/ICSEA.2008.32

Experiences on analysis of requirements quality

Petra Heck, Päivi Parviainen

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Abstract

The quality of any product depends on the quality of the basis of making it, i.e., the quality of the requirements has strong effect on the quality of the end products. In practice, however, the quality of requirement specifications is poor, in fact a primary reason why so many projects continue to fail.
Thus, the current approaches as applied in practice are clearly not enough to develop high quality requirements specifications. Also, the poor quality of the requirements is typically not recognized during requirements development. In this paper we present a method called LSPCM developed for certifying software product quality.
We also describe experiences from using the method for analyzing requirements quality in three cases.
The three different cases show that the checks in the LSPCM are useful for finding inconsistencies in requirements specifications, regardless of the application domain.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings
Subtitle of host publication	Third international Conference on Software Engineering Advances, ICSEA 2008
Publisher	IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
Pages	367-372
ISBN (Print)	978-0-7695-3372-8, 978-1-4244-3218-9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSEA.2008.32
Publication status	Published - 2008
MoE publication type	A4 Article in a conference publication
Event	Third international Conference on Software Engineering Advances, ICSEA 2008 - Sliema, Malta Duration: 26 Oct 2008 → 31 Oct 2008

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Conference	Third international Conference on Software Engineering Advances, ICSEA 2008
Abbreviated title	ICSEA 2008
Country/Territory	Malta
City	Sliema
Period	26/10/08 → 31/10/08

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Requirements quality
software engineering

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Heck, P & Parviainen, P 2008, Experiences on analysis of requirements quality. in Proceedings: Third international Conference on Software Engineering Advances, ICSEA 2008. IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, pp. 367-372, Third international Conference on Software Engineering Advances, ICSEA 2008, Sliema, Malta, 26/10/08. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSEA.2008.32

Experiences on analysis of requirements quality. / Heck, Petra; Parviainen, Päivi.
Proceedings: Third international Conference on Software Engineering Advances, ICSEA 2008. IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, 2008. p. 367-372.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference article in proceedings › Scientific › peer-review

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