Goal-Oriented Software Design Reviews

Some software requirements are omitted or ambiguous depending on the design context, although these would not necessarily be when viewed as alone. The context sometimes causes inconsistencies among implementations that realize same requirement. Existing detection and analysis methods do limit evaluation of review materials to context-dependent design. An technique limits evaluated parts describing is expected efficient. This paper proposes a method for detecting inconsistent (context-dependent requirement defects) caused by omissions ambiguities in reviews. proposed defines goal-oriented check items using goal tree obtained analysis. Reviewers use detect also evaluates through case study. results study showed defined five reviewers detected 24 defects with items. sum estimated additional effort define perform reviews was 19.6 person-hours. Furthermore, an engineer general skills knowledge development but without system-specific could corresponding