Context: Bad requirements quality can cause expensive consequences during the software development lifecycle, especially if iterations are long and feedback comes late. Objectives: We aim at a light-weight static requirements analysis approach that allows for rapid checks immediately when requirements are written down. Method: We transfer the concept of code smells to Requirements Engineering a...

We present the design of a system for Aphasics that assist them in storytelling. Storytelling, in the sense of being able to relate recent and past experiences to relevant others, is considered to be crucial for the quality of life and psychological wellbeing of most people. The storytelling support system that we propose is primarily intended to be used by Aphasics in their postrehabilitation ...

Non-functional Requirements (NFRs) such as software quality attributes, software design constraints and software interface requirements hold crucial information about the constraints on the software system under development and its behavior. NFRs are subjective in nature and have a broad impact on the system as a whole. Being distinct from Functional Requirements (FR), NFRs are dealt with speci...

When users first encounter an application, or decide which application from a number of options to use, their initial trust in this application is a determinant for their willingness to adopt it. At this time, users have not yet had a chance to interact with the application, and hence their perceptions are based on the application presentation on the website rather than on the application’s act...

Considering software architecture concurrently and iteratively with software requirements, has been illustrated as a way to increase productivity and stakeholder satisfaction in the twin peaks model software development process. Because this model exposed only the tip of the iceberg, and lacks of concrete definitions and techniques, an approach of utilizing this model in the real world has been...

The software quality control is one of the main topics in the Software Engineering area. To put the effort in the quality control during the specification phase leads us to detect possible mistakes in an early steps and, easily, to correct them before the design and implementation steps start. In this framework the goal of SAREL system, a knowledge-based system, is twofold. On one hand, to help...

In metropolitan development management, quality of public services is influential in every public sector to satisfaction of citizens on quality of services. Nowadays, satisfaction are with such important matters that should be considered in the planning, implementation, management and maintenance of many public services such as subway, transportation, traffics, parks, markets and so on. Th...

The development of information systems is a complex task, involving technical, human and organizational issues. The results of this activity are not always successful, and are apparent in the lack of software quality and in costs and schedules overruns. The first initiatives developed to solve these problems were concerned with the implementation issues. It is now widely accepted that the real ...

A software specification can be defined as a short statement of the requirements that the software must assure. Through these requirements, software must provide facilities or capabilities to users, enabling them to achieve the specified organizational objectives. Nevertheless, the inappropriate specification of requirements is still considered one of the reasons for the failure of software dev...