Title
NFRFinder: A knowledge based strategy for mining non-functional requirements
Date Issued
17 September 2018
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Río
Publisher(s)
Association for Computing Machinery
Abstract
A challenge in requirements elicitation is to identify quality requirements, i.e. non-functional requirements (hereafter, NFR). In general, stakeholders need NFRs, but these requirements are not always explicit, they can be part of the tacit knowledge. The usual strategy adopted by requirements engineers to elicit NFRs is to act proactively by asking stakeholders their interests in qualities based on lists or catalogs. NFRFinder is a semi-automated process strategy for mining keywords. The strategy uses the keywords to find possible NFRs in unstructured texts, e.g. the meeting minutes that occur during an elicitation task. The strategy relies on catalogs, according to the NFR Framework, as a supporting knowledge base. However, to gain more confidence on the NFRFinder, we have applied it to a set of structured texts. We report on the recall and precision of NFRFinder using a gold standard built from different actors, for requirements sentences. The results are promising, and we point out towards the evolution of NFRFinder.
Start page
102
End page
111
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencias de la computación
Otras ingenierías y tecnologías
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85055777664
Resource of which it is part
ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
ISBN of the container
978-145036503-1
Conference
32nd Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering, SBES 2018
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