Ontology-Based Classification of Non-Functional Requirements in Software Specifications: A new Corpus and SVM-Based Classifier
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PDF version| Title | Ontology-Based Classification of Non-Functional Requirements in Software Specifications: A new Corpus and SVM-Based Classifier |
| Publication Type | Conference Paper |
| Year of Publication | 2013 |
| Refereed Designation | Refereed |
| Authors | Rashwan, A., O. Ormandjieva, and R. Witte |
| Conference Name | The 37th Annual International Computer Software & Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2013) |
| Pagination | 381–386 |
| Date Published | 07/2013 |
| Publisher | IEEE |
| Conference Location | Kyoto, Japan |
| Keywords | Requirements Corpus Development, Requirements Ontology, Software Requirements Engineering, SVM Classifier |
| Abstract | A software requirements specification (SRS) contains all the requirements for a system-to-be. These are typically separated into functional requirements (FR), which describe the features of the system under development, and the non-functional requirements (NFR), which include quality attributes, design constraints, among others. It is well known that NFRs have a large impact on the overall cost and time of the system development process, as they frequently describe cross-cutting concerns. In order to improve software development support, an automated analysis of SRS documents for different NFR types is required. Our work contains two significant contributions towards this goal: (1) A new gold standard corpus containing annotations for different NFR types, based on a requirements ontology; and (2) a Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier to automatically categorize requirements sentences into different ontology classes. Results obtained from two different SRS corpora demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach. |
| DOI | 10.1109/COMPSAC.2013.64 |
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| Acknowledgments | Rolan Abdukalykov, Olga Ormandjieva, Ishrar Hussain, Mohamad Kassab, and Zakaria Siddiqui are acknowledged for annotating the corpus. We also thank Matthew Smith for managing the manual annotation process. |
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