Improvement of requirements quality and software process efficiency

提高需求质量和软件流程效率

• 批准号: RGPIN-2014-04436
• 负责人: Trudel, Sylvie
• 金额: $ 1.68万
• 依托单位: Université du Québec à Montréal
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2014-01-01 至 2015-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=566522
• 关键词: Improvement; requirements; quality; software; process

The proposed research program is in the field of software engineering, more specifically in the study of software requirements written in natural language, their quality and their measurability. It is well recognized that natural language requirements are defect-prone and a number of techniques aim to verify and validate the requirements quality through the identification of defects early in the software life cycle for efficiency purposes. Two research axes are related to quality and measurability of functional requirements, more specifically: 1) Specification methods, and 2) Verification methods of requirements written in natural languages. Our research program is aligned with these two axes. Indeed, our research goal is to first improve the quality of functional requirements by using functional size measurement (FSM) as a means to identify defects in these requirements. Then, our long-term goal is to improve requirements specification methods by including FSM early in order to avoid certain types of defects that could have a negative impact on the software engineering process efficiency. The long-term goal of our proposed research program is to improve methods for specifying requirements in order to prevent defects in the requirements. Our hypothesis is that improving requirements quality using FSM will have a positive impact on the software engineering process efficiency. Software process efficiency is measured by comparing the project effort with the software Functional Size (FS) resulting from that process and can be expressed as a number of hours spent per functional size unit. FSM is normally applied on requirements once they are completed. By moving the measurement earlier within the requirements phase, it would prevent some defects and contribute to requirements of a higher quality, hence better measureable software engineering process efficiency. To achieve this goal, we propose the following research objectives: Objective 1. To design techniques for defect identification in completed software requirements using FSM, in order to improve requirements quality. Objective 2. To investigate early defect detection within the requirements engineering phase and its relationship to the software engineering process efficiency. To achieve these objectives, research projects are defined in collaboration with industry partners and research groups and laboratories. The proposed research program is a natural evolution from progress reported in my recent Ph.D. thesis.

拟议的研究计划是在软件工程领域，更具体地说，在自然语言编写的软件需求，其质量和可测量性的研究。众所周知，自然语言的需求是容易出现缺陷的，一些技术的目的是通过在软件生命周期的早期识别缺陷，以提高效率的目的，验证和确认的需求质量。两个研究轴与功能需求的质量和可测量性有关，更具体地说：1）规格说明方法，以及2）用自然语言编写的需求的验证方法。我们的研究计划与这两个轴一致。事实上，我们的研究目标是首先通过使用功能尺寸测量（FSM）作为一种手段来识别这些需求中的缺陷，以提高功能需求的质量。然后，我们的长期目标是改进需求规格说明方法，包括FSM早期，以避免某些类型的缺陷，可能会对软件工程过程的效率产生负面影响。我们提出的研究计划的长期目标是改进指定需求的方法，以防止需求中的缺陷。我们的假设是，使用有限状态机提高需求质量将对软件工程过程的效率产生积极的影响。软件过程效率是通过比较项目工作量与该过程产生的软件功能大小（FS）来衡量的，可以表示为每个功能大小单元所花费的小时数。FSM通常在需求完成后应用于需求。通过在需求阶段中更早地移动度量，它将防止一些缺陷并有助于更高质量的需求，因此更好的可度量软件工程过程效率。为了实现这一目标，我们提出了以下研究目标：目标1。利用有限状态机设计已完成的软件需求中的缺陷识别技术，以提高需求质量。目标2.研究需求工程阶段的早期缺陷检测及其与软件工程过程效率的关系。为了实现这些目标，研究项目是与行业合作伙伴和研究小组和实验室合作确定的。拟议的研究计划是从我最近的博士学位报告的进展自然演变。论文