Towards the improvement of natural language requirements descriptions: The C&&L tool

Edgar Sarmiento-Calisaya; Edward Hinojosa Cárdenas; Victor Cornejo-Aparicio; Guina Sotomayor Alzamora

doi:10.1145/3341105.3374028

Towards the improvement of natural language requirements descriptions: The C&&L tool

Edgar Sarmiento-Calisaya, Edward Hinojosa Cárdenas, Victor Cornejo-Aparicio, Guina Sotomayor Alzamora

Departamento Académico de Ingeniería de Sistemas e Informática

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Abstract

A natural language-based requirements specification tends to be full of requirements that are ambiguous, unnecessarily complicated, missing, wrong, duplicated or conflicting. Poor quality requirements often compromise the subsequent software construction activities (e.g. planning, design, coding or testing). A strategy for requirements quality evaluation should enable a faster requirements analysis, highlight defect indicators and incorporate also fix recommendations to help practitioners to effectively improve their requirements. In this paper we brief describe a Natural Language Processing and Petri-Net strategy for automated analysis of scenario-driven requirements named C&L prototype tool. The C&L evaluates structural (Static analysis) aspects of scenarios and behavioral aspects (Dynamic analysis) of equivalent Petri-Nets. The feasibility of the C&L is evaluated in four projects described as use cases, which indicates promising results (the overall precision was 93.5% and the recalls were perfect).

Original language	English
Title of host publication	35th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC 2020
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	1405-1413
Number of pages	9
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450368667
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3341105.3374028
State	Published - 30 Mar 2020
Event	35th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC 2020 - Brno, Czech Republic Duration: 30 Mar 2020 → 3 Apr 2020

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Name	Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

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Conference	35th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC 2020
Country/Territory	Czech Republic
City	Brno
Period	30/03/20 → 3/04/20

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Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Universidad Nacional de San Agustín de Arequipa (Project Nº. IBAIB-06-2019-UNSA).

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© 2020 ACM.

Keywords

Analysis
Automation
Quality
Requirement
Scenario
Use case

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Sarmiento-Calisaya, E., Cárdenas, E. H., Cornejo-Aparicio, V., & Alzamora, G. S. (2020). Towards the improvement of natural language requirements descriptions: The C&&L tool. In 35th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC 2020 (pp. 1405-1413). (Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3341105.3374028

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Sarmiento-Calisaya, E , Cárdenas, EH , Cornejo-Aparicio, V & Alzamora, GS 2020, Towards the improvement of natural language requirements descriptions: The C&&L tool. in 35th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC 2020. Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 1405-1413, 35th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC 2020, Brno, Czech Republic, 30/03/20. https://doi.org/10.1145/3341105.3374028

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35th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC 2020. Association for Computing Machinery, 2020. p. 1405-1413 (Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing).

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