Requirements Quality in the Incremental Design Processes: Problems and Perspectives

Writing requirements is a critical step in designing aircrafts softwareintensive systems. The latest requirement management and authoring tools, using current engineering based approaches, start to efficiently support the requirements quality and consistency checks for huge projects having long changes cycles. However, these solutions become limited facing the incremental design processes where frequent changes of requirements shall be handled. In this paper we will discuss on dedicated approaches to support requirement writing and checking based on boilerplates and semantic knowledge representations, in particular ontologies. The expected contributions are firstly to improve the quality of requirement writing and secondly to advance the current knowledge in the use of semantic technologies dedicated to quality management. We present the corresponding research issues, the relevance of these approaches and the main lines of the proposed research activities as well as the originality of the selected options.