Functional grouping of natural language requirements for assistance in architectural software design

Autores
Casamayor, Agustin Angel; Godoy, Daniela Lis; Campo, Marcelo Ricardo
Año de publicación
2012
Idioma
inglés
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artículo
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Descripción
Modern software systems are becoming larger and more complex every day. One of the most challenging steps for designing a good architecture for a certain piece of software is the analysis of requirements, usually written in natural language by engineers not familiar with specific design formalisms. The main problem related to this task is the conceptual gap existing between low-level requirements and higher views of the system decomposing its functionality. In this paper, we introduce an approach for mining and grouping functionality from textual descriptions of requirements using text mining techniques aiming at helping software designers with this complex and time-consuming task. The knowledge discovered starting from informally written requirements using a combination of natural language processing (NLP) and text clustering algorithms can be then easily mapped into design concerns of a possible architecture for the system. Experimental validation in three case studies suggests a great potential of the proposed approach for providing assistance to software designers during early stages of the software development process.
Fil: Casamayor, Agustin Angel. Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas. Instituto de Sistemas Tandil; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Tandil. Instituto Superior de Ingeniería del Software. Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Instituto Superior de Ingeniería del Software; Argentina
Fil: Godoy, Daniela Lis. Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas. Instituto de Sistemas Tandil; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Tandil. Instituto Superior de Ingeniería del Software. Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Instituto Superior de Ingeniería del Software; Argentina
Fil: Campo, Marcelo Ricardo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Tandil. Instituto Superior de Ingeniería del Software. Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Instituto Superior de Ingeniería del Software; Argentina. Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas. Instituto de Sistemas Tandil; Argentina
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SOFTWARE DESIGN
REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING
FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS
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title Functional grouping of natural language requirements for assistance in architectural software design
spellingShingle Functional grouping of natural language requirements for assistance in architectural software design
Casamayor, Agustin Angel
SOFTWARE DESIGN
REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING
FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS
title_short Functional grouping of natural language requirements for assistance in architectural software design
title_full Functional grouping of natural language requirements for assistance in architectural software design
title_fullStr Functional grouping of natural language requirements for assistance in architectural software design
title_full_unstemmed Functional grouping of natural language requirements for assistance in architectural software design
title_sort Functional grouping of natural language requirements for assistance in architectural software design
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Casamayor, Agustin Angel
Godoy, Daniela Lis
Campo, Marcelo Ricardo
author Casamayor, Agustin Angel
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Godoy, Daniela Lis
Campo, Marcelo Ricardo
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Campo, Marcelo Ricardo
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv SOFTWARE DESIGN
REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING
FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS
topic SOFTWARE DESIGN
REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING
FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS
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dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv Modern software systems are becoming larger and more complex every day. One of the most challenging steps for designing a good architecture for a certain piece of software is the analysis of requirements, usually written in natural language by engineers not familiar with specific design formalisms. The main problem related to this task is the conceptual gap existing between low-level requirements and higher views of the system decomposing its functionality. In this paper, we introduce an approach for mining and grouping functionality from textual descriptions of requirements using text mining techniques aiming at helping software designers with this complex and time-consuming task. The knowledge discovered starting from informally written requirements using a combination of natural language processing (NLP) and text clustering algorithms can be then easily mapped into design concerns of a possible architecture for the system. Experimental validation in three case studies suggests a great potential of the proposed approach for providing assistance to software designers during early stages of the software development process.
Fil: Casamayor, Agustin Angel. Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas. Instituto de Sistemas Tandil; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Tandil. Instituto Superior de Ingeniería del Software. Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Instituto Superior de Ingeniería del Software; Argentina
Fil: Godoy, Daniela Lis. Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas. Instituto de Sistemas Tandil; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Tandil. Instituto Superior de Ingeniería del Software. Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Instituto Superior de Ingeniería del Software; Argentina
Fil: Campo, Marcelo Ricardo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Tandil. Instituto Superior de Ingeniería del Software. Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Instituto Superior de Ingeniería del Software; Argentina. Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas. Instituto de Sistemas Tandil; Argentina
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