SpecQua: Towards a Framework for Requirements Specifications with Increased Quality

摘要

Requirements specifications describe multiple technical concerns of a system and are used throughout the project life-cycle to help sharing a system's common understanding among multiple stakeholders. The interest to support the definition and the management of system requirements specifications (SRSs) is evident by the diversity of many generic and RE-specific tools. However, little work has been done in what concerns the quality of SRSs. Indeed, most recommended practices are mainly focused on human-intensive tasks, mainly dependent on domain experts, and so, these practices tend to be time-consuming, error-prone and unproductive. This paper proposes and discusses an innovative approach to mitigate this status, and defends that with proper tool support - such as the SpecQua framework discussed in the paper -, we can increase the overall quality of SRSs as well as we can increase the productivity associated to traditional tasks of RE such as documentation and validation.