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Defects in requirements specifications can have severe consequences during the software development lifecycle. Some of them result in overall project failure due to incorrect or missing quality characteristics such as security. There are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-06-28 H. Villamizar , A. A. Neto , M. Kalinowski , A. Garcia , D. Mendez Fernández

The translation of high-level abstract features into clear, and testable functional requirements (FRs) is a crucial step in software development, bridging the gap between user needs and technical specifications. In engineering practice,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Xiaoli Lian , Jiajun Wu , Xiaoyun Gao , Shuaisong Wang , Li Zhang

Defects in requirements specifications can have severe consequences during the software development lifecycle. Some of them may result in poor product quality and/or time and budget overruns due to incorrect or missing quality…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Hugo Villamizar , Marcos Kalinowski , Alessandro Garcia , Daniel Mendez Fernández

The increasing complexity of software systems and the influence of software-supported decisions in our society have sparked the need for software that is safe, reliable, and fair. Explainability has been identified as a means to achieve…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Timo Speith

Requirements Engineering (RE) is one of the prime areas in software development. Since agile software development englobes several emerging techniques and advocates for continuous improvement, it urges the question of which agile RE…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Juan Carlos Barata , Diego Lisboa , Laudelino Cordeiro Bastos , Adolfo Neto

Requirements engineering (RE) is considerably different in agile development than in more traditional development processes. Yet, there is little empirical knowledge on the state of the practice and contemporary problems in agile RE. As…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Stefan Wagner , Daniel Méndez Fernández , Michael Felderer , Marcos Kalinowski

Writing requirements is a two-way process. In this paper we use to classify Functional Requirements (FR) and Non Functional Requirements (NFR) statements from Software Requirements Specification (SRS) documents. This is systematically…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2010-02-08 Lilly Raamesh , G. V. Uma

Completeness is one of the most important attributes of software requirement specifications. Unfortunately, incompleteness is meanwhile one of the most difficult problems to detect. Some approaches have been proposed to detect missing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Ziyan Zhao , Li Zhang , Xiaoli Lian

This paper aims to extend the code generation capability of large language models (LLMs) to automatically manage comprehensive software requirements from given textual descriptions. Such requirements include both functional (i.e. achieving…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Hojae Han , Jaejin Kim , Jaeseok Yoo , Youngwon Lee , Seung-won Hwang

Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools support requirements engineering (RE) tasks like requirements elicitation, classification, and validation. However, they are often developed from scratch despite functional overlaps, and abandoned…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Julian Frattini , Quim Motger

Centralized identity management systems continuously experience security and privacy challenges, motivating the exploration of Decentralized Identity (DI) and Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) as alternatives. Despite privacy and security…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Daria Schumm , Burkhard Stiller

Technical debt (TD) is a metaphor that is used to communicate the consequences of poor software development practices to non-technical stakeholders. In recent years, it has gained significant attention in agile software development (ASD).…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Woubshet Nema Behutiye , Pilar Rodriguez , Markku Oivo , Ayse Tosun

Machine Learning software documentation is different from most of the documentations that were studied in software engineering research. Often, the users of these documentations are not software experts. The increasing interest in using…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-02-03 Yalda Hashemi , Maleknaz Nayebi , Giuliano Antoniol

The ubiquitous presence of software in the products we use, together with Artificial Intelligence in these products, has led to an increasing need for consumer trust. Consumers often lose faith in products, and the lack of Trust propagates…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-07-08 David Kwan , Luiz Marcio Cysneiros , Julio Cesar Sampaio do Prado Leite

Transformation approaches for automatically constructing analysis models from textual requirements are critical to software development, as they can bring forward the use of precise formal languages from the coding phase to the requirement…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Keletso J. Letsholo

It is a long-standing desire of industry and research to automate the software development and testing process as much as possible. In this process, requirements engineering (RE) plays a fundamental role for all other steps that build on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Viju Sudhi , Libin Kutty , Robin Gröpler

Context: Managing data related to a software product and its development poses significant challenges for software projects and agile development teams. These include integrating data from diverse sources and ensuring data quality amidst…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Ahmed Fawzy , Amjed Tahir , Matthias Galster , Peng Liang

[Background] The rapidly changing business environments in which many companies operate is challenging traditional Requirements Engineering (RE) approaches. This gave rise to agile approaches for RE. Security, at the same time, is an…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-06-06 H. Villamizar , M. Kalinowski , M. Viana , D. Méndez Fernández

There are some non-formal methodologies such as RUP, OpenUP, agile methodologies such as SCRUP, XP and techniques like those proposed by UML, which allow the development of software. The software industry has struggled to generate quality…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2011-11-07 Carlos Alberto Fernandez-y-Fernandez , Martín José José

Using models for requirements engineering (RE) is uncommon in systems engineering, despite the widespread use of model-based engineering in general. One reason for this lack of use is that formal models do not match well the trend to move…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Grischa Liebel , Eric Knauss