A case study on specifying quality requirements using a quality model

K. Lochmann, D. Mendez Fernandez, S. Wagner

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAPSEC 2012 - Proceedings of the 19th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages577-582
Number of pages6
ISBN (Print)9780769549224
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Externally publishedYes
Event19th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, APSEC 2012 - Hong Kong, China
Duration: 4 Dec 20127 Dec 2012

Publication series

NameProceedings - Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, APSEC
Volume1
ISSN (Print)1530-1362

Conference

Conference19th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, APSEC 2012
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHong Kong
Period4/12/127/12/12

Keywords

  • industrial case study
  • quality model
  • Quality requirements

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