Quality Requirements Analysis using Requirements Frames

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Title: Quality Requirements Analysis using Requirements Frames
Author(s): Haruhiko Kaiya and Atsushi Ohnishi
Source: QSIC 2011, Proc. of The 11th International Conference on Quality Software, pp. 198-207, Madrid, Spain, 13-14 Jul. 2011. DOI 10.1109/QSIC.2011.21

Abstract:
Defining quality requirements completely and correctly is more difficult than defining functional requirements because stakeholders do not state most of quality requirements explicitly.We thus propose a method to measure a requirements specification for identifying the amount of quality requirements in the specification. We also propose another method to recommend quality requirements to be defined in such a specification. We expect stakeholders can identify missing and unnecessary quality requirements when measured quality requirements are different from recommended ones. We use a semi-formal language called X-JRDL to represent requirements specifications because it is suitable for analyzing quality requirements. We applied our methods to a requirements specification, and found our methods contribute to define quality requirements more completely and correctly.