ISBN-13: 9783639165500 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 140 str.
Requirements Engineering (RE) is a sub-disciplinewithin Software Engineering increasingly recognizedas a critical component in the success of a softwaredevelopment project. With the escalating complexityof software requirements, problems of traditionalrequirements engineering techniques, including theuse of natural language text, are becomingincreasingly apparent.This research aims to assistsoftware analysts in dealing with the challenges thatexist in correctly understanding user requirementsduring the interactive process of requirementelicitation and analysis. It proposes a methodologyrelated to visualization of textual requirements andways of making them shared, reviewed and debated bythe stakeholders. The approach is based on asyntactic analysis and formalization of the textwritten in natural language and enriched withdomain-related information extracted from reusabledomain-specific data models. The applicability ofthis research is illustrated with a case study. Aprototype implementing our methodology is developedas a proof-of-concept. The results of controlledexperiments designed to evaluate our approach provethe validity of the methodology.