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Are Your Requirements Covered?

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Erschienen in: Software Quality: Methods and Tools for Better Software and Systems

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The coverage of requirements is a fundamental need throughout the software life cycle. It gives project managers an indication how well the software meets expected requirements. A precondition for the process is to link requirements with project artifacts, like test cases. There are various (semi-) automated methods deriving traceable relations between requirements and test scenarios aiming to counteract time consuming and error-prone manual approaches. However, even if traceability links are correctly established coverage is calculated based on passed test scenarios without taking into account the overall code base written to realize the requirement in the first place.

In this paper the “Requirements-Testing-Coverage” (ReTeCo) approach is described that establishes links between requirements and test cases by making use of knowledge available in software tools supporting the software engineering process and are part of the software engineering tool environment. In contrast to traditional approaches ReTeCo generates traceability links indirectly by gathering and analyzing information from version control system, ticketing system and test coverage tools. Since the approach takes into account a larger information base it is able to calculate coverage reports on a fine-grained contextual level rather than on the result of high-level artifacts.

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Titel: Are Your Requirements Covered?
verfasst von: Richard Mordinyi
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Buch: Software Quality: Methods and Tools for Better Software and Systems
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-71439-4

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-71440-0

Copyright-Jahr: 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71440-0_6

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