Replication of an experiment on linguistic tool support for consolidation of requirements from multiple sources
Wnuk, Krzysztof LU ; Höst, Martin LU and Regnell, Björn LU
(2012)
In Empirical Software Engineering
17(3).
p.305-344
- Abstract
- Large market-driven software companies continuously receive large numbers of requirements and change requests from multiple sources. The task of analyzing those requests against each other and against already analyzed or implemented functionality then recording similarities between them, also called the requirements consolidation task, may be challenging and time consuming. This paper presents a replicated experiment designed to further investigate the linguistic tool support for the requirements consolidation task. In this replication study, 45 subjects, working in pairs on the same set of requirements as in the original study, were assigned to use two methods for the requirements consolidation: (1) lexical similarity and (2) searching... (More)
- Large market-driven software companies continuously receive large numbers of requirements and change requests from multiple sources. The task of analyzing those requests against each other and against already analyzed or implemented functionality then recording similarities between them, also called the requirements consolidation task, may be challenging and time consuming. This paper presents a replicated experiment designed to further investigate the linguistic tool support for the requirements consolidation task. In this replication study, 45 subjects, working in pairs on the same set of requirements as in the original study, were assigned to use two methods for the requirements consolidation: (1) lexical similarity and (2) searching and filtering. The results show that the linguistic method used in this experiment is not more efficient in consolidating requirements than the searching and filtering method, which contradicts the findings of the original study. However, we confirm the previous results that the assisted method (lexical similarity) can deliver more correct links and miss fewer links than the manual method (searching and filtering). (Less)
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- author
- Wnuk, Krzysztof
LU
; Höst, Martin
LU
and Regnell, Björn
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2012
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Experiment, Requirements engineering, Linguistic method, Replication
- in
- Empirical Software Engineering
- volume
- 17
- issue
- 3
- pages
- 305 - 344
- publisher
- Springer
- external identifiers
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- wos:000300343800006
- scopus:84857358078
- ISSN
- 1573-7616
- DOI
- 10.1007/s10664-011-9174-8
- project
- UPITER - Efficient requirements architectures in platform-based requirements management for mobile terminals
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
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- c8a75733-75a0-4acb-a7cb-cb83de1f3d39 (old id 2199725)
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