A metrics for meeting quality on a software requirement acquisition phase

  • Authors:
  • Noriko Hanakawa;Masaki Obana

  • Affiliations:
  • Hannan University, Matsubara-si, Osaka, Japan;Nara Institute Science and Technology, Ikoma, Nara, Japan

  • Venue:
  • PROFES'12 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Requirement analysis of software is an important phase on software development. In practice, stakeholders discuss software requirements with system engineers on meetings. Quality of meetings influences quality of software requirements. Low quality of meetings will lead low quality software. However, measurement of meeting quality is difficult, because meetings for software requirements mainly perform oral discussions among stakeholders and system engineers. Therefore, we propose a new metrics of meeting quality for software requirements are discussed. A feature of the metrics is to measure only when and who speaks. Because the metrics does not depend on analysis of conversations' contents by natural language techniques, the metrics can be easily adapted to various software domains. As a result of adapting practical software development projects, we extracted doubtful discussions in meetings. After that, we confirmed that the metrics can predict doubtful specifications that may lead specification faults in future.