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Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review
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TY - GEN
T1 - An Exploratory Study of Information Retrieval Techniques in Domain Analysis
AU - Alves, V.
AU - Schwanninger, C.
AU - Barbosa, L.
AU - Rashid, A.
AU - Sawyer, Peter
AU - Rayson, P.
AU - Pohl, C.
AU - Rummler, A.
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Domain analysis involves not only looking at standard requirements documents (e.g., use case specifications) but also at customer information packs, market analyses, etc. Looking across all these documents and deriving, in a practical and scalable way, a feature model that is comprised of coherent abstractions is a fundamental and non-trivial challenge. We conduct an exploratory study to investigate the suitability of information retrieval (IR) techniques for scalable identification of commonalities and variabilities in requirement specifications for software product lines. Accordingly, based on observations derived from industrial experience and on state-of-the-art research and practice, we also propose an initial framework, leveraging IR to systematically abstract requirements from existing specifications of a given domain into a feature model. We evaluate this framework, present a roadmap for its further extension, and formulate hypotheses to guide future work in exploring IR techniques for domain analysis.
AB - Domain analysis involves not only looking at standard requirements documents (e.g., use case specifications) but also at customer information packs, market analyses, etc. Looking across all these documents and deriving, in a practical and scalable way, a feature model that is comprised of coherent abstractions is a fundamental and non-trivial challenge. We conduct an exploratory study to investigate the suitability of information retrieval (IR) techniques for scalable identification of commonalities and variabilities in requirement specifications for software product lines. Accordingly, based on observations derived from industrial experience and on state-of-the-art research and practice, we also propose an initial framework, leveraging IR to systematically abstract requirements from existing specifications of a given domain into a feature model. We evaluate this framework, present a roadmap for its further extension, and formulate hypotheses to guide future work in exploring IR techniques for domain analysis.
KW - Domain Analysis
KW - Information Retrieval
KW - Software Product Lines
U2 - 10.1109/SPLC.2008.18
DO - 10.1109/SPLC.2008.18
M3 - Conference contribution/Paper
SN - 978-0-7695-3303-2
SP - 67
EP - 76
BT - 12th International Software Product Line Conference, 2008. SPLC '08.
PB - IEEE Publishing
T2 - 12th International Software Product Line Conference 2008
Y2 - 8 September 2008 through 12 September 2008
ER -