Identifying Relevant Factors of Requirements Quality: An Industrial Case Study
2024 (English) In: Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality / [ed] Daniel Mendez, Ana Moreira, Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2024, p. 20-36Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
[Context and Motivation]: The quality of requirements specifications impacts subsequent, dependent software engineering activities. Requirements quality defects like ambiguous statements can result in incomplete or wrong features and even lead to budget overrun or project failure. [Problem]: Attempts at measuring the impact of requirements quality have been held back by the vast amount of interacting factors. Requirements quality research lacks an understanding of which factors are relevant in practice. [Principal Ideas and Results]: We conduct a case study considering data from both interview transcripts and issue reports to identify relevant factors of requirements quality. The results include 17 factors and 11 interaction effects relevant to the case company. [Contribution]: The results contribute empirical evidence that (1) strengthens existing requirements engineering theories and (2) advances industry-relevant requirements quality research. © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2024. p. 20-36
Series
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, ISSN 0302-9743, E-ISSN 1611-3349 ; 14588
Keywords [en]
Case study, Interview, Requirements quality, Budget control, Software engineering, Budget overruns, Case-studies, Engineering activities, Industrial case study, Interaction effect, Project failures, Quality defects, Requirement quality, Requirements specifications, Requirements engineering
National Category
Software Engineering
Identifiers URN: urn:nbn:se:bth-26153 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-57327-9_2 ISI: 001209314200002 Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85190670743 ISBN: 9783031573262 (print) OAI: oai:DiVA.org:bth-26153 DiVA, id: diva2:1855176
Conference 30th International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality, REFSQ 2024, Winterthur, 8 April through 12 April 2024
Part of project SERT- Software Engineering ReThought, Knowledge Foundation
Funder Knowledge Foundation, 20180010 2024-04-302024-04-302024-05-30 Bibliographically approved