Requirements engineering is a challenging process in software development projects. Requirements, in general, are documented in natural language. They often have issues related to ambiguity, completeness and consistency. How to improve the quality of requirements documentation remains a classic research topic. This research aims at improving the way of editing and documenting functional require...

Studying the quality requirements (aka Non-Functional Requirements (NFR)) of a system is crucial in Requirements Engineering. Many software projects fail because of neglecting or failing to incorporate the NFR during the software life development cycle. This paper focuses on analyzing the importance of the quality requirements attributes in software effort estimation models based on the Desharn...

Traditional requirements engineering approaches suffer from the tyranny of the dominant decomposition, with functional requirements serving as the base decomposition and non-functional requirements cutting across them. In this paper, we propose a model that decomposes requirements in a uniform fashion regardless of their functional or non-functional nature. This makes it possible to project any...

At the heart of a well-disciplined, systematic methodology that explicitly supports the use of COTS components is a clearly defined process for effectively using components that meet the needs of the system under development. In this paper, we present the CARE/SA approach which supports the iterative matching, ranking, and selection of COTS components, using a representation of COTS components ...

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At the heart of a well-disciplined, systematic methodology that explicitly supports the use of COTS components is a clearly defined process for effectively using components that meet the needs of the system under development. In this paper, we present the CARE (COTS-Aware Requirements Engineering) Framework, a process-oriented framework which supports the iterative matching, ranking, and select...

Improvement and evaluation of software quality is a recurring and crucial activity in the software development life-cycle. During software development, software artifacts such as requirement documents, comments in source code, design documents, and change requests are created containing natural language text. For analyzing natural text, specialized text analysis techniques are available. Howeve...

Whereas current engineering practice focuses on functional requirements, considerations other than the function (e.g., safety; security; maintainability) are relegated into a category (unfortunately) called “non-functional requirements.” Although ISO/IEC/ IEEE 24765 §3.1900 defines this term as “a software requirement that describes not what the software will do but how the software will do it,...