2017
Conference article  Open Access

Ambiguity defects as variation points in requirements

Fantechi A., Gnesi S., Semini L.

Ambiguity in requirements  Variability in software product lines 

Software requirements are generally expressed in Natural Language. NL is intrinsically ambiguous, and this is seen as a possible source of problems in the later interpretation of requirements. However, ambiguity or under-specification at requirements level can in some cases give an indication of possible variability, either in design choice, in implementation choices or configurability. Taking into account the results of previous analyses conducted on different requirements documents with NL analysis tools, we attempt a first classification of the forms of ambiguity that indicate variation points, and we indicate an approach to achieve automated support to variability elicitation.

Source: Eleventh International Workshop on Variability Modelling of Software-intensive Systems, VaMoS 2017, pp. 13–19, Eindhoven, Netherlands, 1-3/02/2017


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@inproceedings{oai:it.cnr:prodotti:384025,
	title = {Ambiguity defects as variation points in requirements},
	author = {Fantechi A. and Gnesi S. and Semini L.},
	doi = {10.1145/3023956.3023964},
	booktitle = {Eleventh International Workshop on Variability                Modelling of Software-intensive Systems, VaMoS 2017, pp. 13–19, Eindhoven, Netherlands, 1-3/02/2017},
	year = {2017}
}