Enriching Frame-based Structured Representations for Requirements using Case Frames - An Approach Towards Handling Incompleteness in Informal Requirements

Akanksha Mishra, Richa Sharma

2017

Abstract

Requirements gathered during early phase of requirements engineering are informal and vague. These informal requirements are analyzed with the goal of detecting three major problems in requirements – ambiguity, inconsistency, and incompleteness in order to arrive at correct and formal set of requirements. These problems are quite intertwined, with one problem leading to another. Incompleteness in requirements, however, is considered to be a principal reason for poor quality of requirements, and is the most difficult issue to address. There are multiple views around defining and detecting incompleteness in requirements. In this paper, we present an approach towards handling incompleteness in informal requirements considering individual requirements statement expressed in natural language as an atomic requirement. Our approach is based on enriching frame-based structured representation using FrameNet database that, in turn, can prove useful in identifying potential missing information from requirements. We also report our observations from the evaluation study conducted with a case study.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Mishra A. and Sharma R. (2017). Enriching Frame-based Structured Representations for Requirements using Case Frames - An Approach Towards Handling Incompleteness in Informal Requirements . In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE, ISBN 978-989-758-250-9, pages 314-319. DOI: 10.5220/0006379103140319

in Bibtex Style

@conference{enase17,
author={Akanksha Mishra and Richa Sharma},
title={Enriching Frame-based Structured Representations for Requirements using Case Frames - An Approach Towards Handling Incompleteness in Informal Requirements},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,},
year={2017},
pages={314-319},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006379103140319},
isbn={978-989-758-250-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,
TI - Enriching Frame-based Structured Representations for Requirements using Case Frames - An Approach Towards Handling Incompleteness in Informal Requirements
SN - 978-989-758-250-9
AU - Mishra A.
AU - Sharma R.
PY - 2017
SP - 314
EP - 319
DO - 10.5220/0006379103140319