Practical Opportunities in Semi-Automated Requirements Engineering
Kanwal Daud Gill, Arif Raza
Journal of Information Technology Review, Vol. 5, No. 3, 2014.
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Link: http://www.dline.info/jitr/fulltext/v5n3/3.pdf
Abstract:
The critical phrase of Requirements Engineering (RE) has been an active research domain for decades. The evolutions in RE over the years have improved them considerably but still many anomalies exist. However, with emergence and evolution of incredibly exciting fields like Natural Language Processing (NLP), Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Information Extraction (IE) and Text Mining (TM); new possibilities of semi-automated requirements have emerged. The applicability aspect and application opportunities of these domains in RE may differ but certainly their progress has paved way for semi-automation of RE processes. The semi-automation would significantly help in time saving, precision improvement, error and ambiguity handling, and overall process quality improvement. Some of the opportunities, problems and overview of their solutions have been presented in this paper. The meta models of automated requirements recommendation, WSD and to and fro conversion of informal and formal requirements are proposed.