TY - GEN
T1 - A case study on specifying quality requirements using a quality model
AU - Lochmann, K.
AU - Fernandez, D. Mendez
AU - Wagner, S.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Quality requirements are an often neglected part of requirements engineering. If specified at all, they tend to be either too abstract or very technical and without a rationale. In this paper, we evaluate a quality requirements approach, which makes use of activity-based quality models. To this end, we conduct a comparative case study at Siemens in which we compare the requirements resulting from applying our quality model with the requirements previously used in the same environment. The results indicate an improvement of the requirements regarding, e.g., structured ness and trace ability, but also that the productivity perceived by the industry participants could not be increased. The study thus gives first insights into strengths and limitations of using a quality model in an industrial requirements engineering process.
AB - Quality requirements are an often neglected part of requirements engineering. If specified at all, they tend to be either too abstract or very technical and without a rationale. In this paper, we evaluate a quality requirements approach, which makes use of activity-based quality models. To this end, we conduct a comparative case study at Siemens in which we compare the requirements resulting from applying our quality model with the requirements previously used in the same environment. The results indicate an improvement of the requirements regarding, e.g., structured ness and trace ability, but also that the productivity perceived by the industry participants could not be increased. The study thus gives first insights into strengths and limitations of using a quality model in an industrial requirements engineering process.
KW - industrial case study
KW - quality model
KW - Quality requirements
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84874612716&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/APSEC.2012.57
DO - 10.1109/APSEC.2012.57
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84874612716
SN - 9780769549224
T3 - Proceedings - Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, APSEC
SP - 577
EP - 582
BT - APSEC 2012 - Proceedings of the 19th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 19th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, APSEC 2012
Y2 - 4 December 2012 through 7 December 2012
ER -