A linguistic-engineering approach to large-scale requirements management
IEEE SoftwarePublished 1 January 2005Open access
Johan Natt och Dag, Björn Regnell, Vincenzo Gervasi, Sjaak Brinkkemper
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For large software companies, the sheer number of textual requirements presents specific challenges, and automated support through linguistic engineering could save considerable time and improve software quality.
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Developing large, complex software products aimed at broad markets involves identifying and maintaining the link between product requirements and the continuous, massive inflow of customers' wishes. The manual linkage performed today is cumbersome, time-consuming, and error-prone. Automating this support through linguistic engineering could save considerable time and improve software quality. This article includes an evaluation with real requirements from industry.
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