Requirement engineering of software product lines: Extracting variability using NLP
Fantechi A., Ferrari A., Gnesi S., Semini L.
Natural Language Processing Natural language processing Software product lines Requirement Engineering Natural language requirements Software Product Lines
The engineering of software product lines begins with the identification of the possible variation points. To this aim, natural language (NL) requirement documents can be used as a source from which variability-relevant information can be elicited. In this paper, we propose to identify variability issues as a subset of the ambiguity defects found in NL requirement documents. To validate the proposal, we single out ambiguities using an available NL analysis tool, QuARS, and we classify the ambiguities returned by the tool by distinguishing among false positives, real ambiguities, and variation points, by independent analysis and successive agreement phase. We consider three different sets of requirements and collect the data that come from the analysis performed.
Source: 26th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, RE 2018, pp. 418–423, Banff, Canada, 20-24 August, 2018
Publisher: IEEE, New York, USA
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@inproceedings{oai:it.cnr:prodotti:424446,
title = {Requirement engineering of software product lines: Extracting variability using NLP},
author = {Fantechi A. and Ferrari A. and Gnesi S. and Semini L.},
publisher = {IEEE, New York, USA},
doi = {10.1109/re.2018.00053},
booktitle = {26th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, RE 2018, pp. 418–423, Banff, Canada, 20-24 August, 2018},
year = {2018}
}
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