This paper describes an extension to the natural language requirements specification quality model that is the basis for the QuARS (Quality Analyzer of Requirements Specification) tool. The extension takes into account ambiguities that were not handled before.

Interviews with IS developers suggest that requirements analysis is rarely perceived as a cooperative activity. Instead it is often seen as a process of extracting requirements from passive clients (as terms such as “requirements capture” and “requirements engineering” imply). A more cooperative approach which recognises requirements analysis as a negotiative process between analyst(s) and clie...

Requirements engineering is concerned with the identification of the goals to be achieved by the envisioned IS/IT system. The processes involved include three interrelated functions: requirements elicitation, specification and validation. This study represents an exposition of requirements elicitation/specification concepts and challenges targeting the Government Sector. Groups of Project Manag...

Requirements engineering research has for long recognized the leading role of goals as requirement artifacts during the requirements engineering specification processes. Given the large number of artifacts created during the requirements specification and the continuous evolution of these artifacts, reasoning about them remains a challenging task. Moreover, the rising complexity of the target d...

In today’s society, mobile applications are becoming more popular and providing several advantages. However, users will resist using a product regardless of how well-tested or solid it is if the wrong requirements implemented. Understanding factors that influence purchase can provide useful information for application design development. Hence, purpose this research to better understand impact ...

It is a frequently reported effect of applying requirements specification languages that the formalization of informal requirements leads to the detection of defects such as omissions, conflicts, and ambiguities. However, there is little quantitative data available on this effect. This paper presents an empirical study with requirements specification languages, which addresses two research ques...

While productive use of parallel systems for business applications is quickly growing, their usage for scientific applications is far below expectations. The main reason is that programming of parallel systems is still far too complex. Starting from an analysis of the user requirements, it is the purpose of this paper to explain our strategy towards next-generation parallel programming environm...