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2016 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Quality Assurance of Requirements Artifacts in Practice: A Case Study and a Process Proposal

Authors : Henning Femmer, Benedikt Hauptmann, Sebastian Eder, Dagmar Moser

Published in: Product-Focused Software Process Improvement

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Requirements artifacts build the basis for various software engineering activities, such as development, testing or effort estimations. As such, the quality of requirements artifacts impacts the efficiency and effectiveness of these activities. Consequently, requirements artifacts should be subject to quality assurance (QA).
Unfortunately, QA of requirements artifacts struggles in practice. We contribute a first industrial case study, in which we found that the main problems in QA for requirements artifacts were a missing common quality understanding, the low feedback speed, low efficiency in the QA process, and, consequently, the lack of creating a sustaining QA processes.
Based on these results, we furthermore contribute a process for requirements artifact QA that is designed to address these problems. We discuss feasibility and impact of the process with industry, who acknowledge its potential to increase efficiency and to provide a more sustaining QA process in practice.

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In a presentation after the study, another engineer reported that for a review it usually took multiple weeks until the original author received feedback. The person mentioned that after she received feedback, she herself, although being the original author, needed some time to understand the content again.
 
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Metadata
Title
Quality Assurance of Requirements Artifacts in Practice: A Case Study and a Process Proposal
Authors
Henning Femmer
Benedikt Hauptmann
Sebastian Eder
Dagmar Moser
Copyright Year
2016
Book
Product-Focused Software Process Improvement

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-49093-9

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-49094-6

Copyright Year: 2016

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49094-6_36

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