Tailoring a COTS Group Support System for Software Requirements Inspection

Halling, Michael; GrÃ¼nbacher, Paul; Biffl, Stefan

doi:10.1109/ASE.2001.989806

Tailoring a COTS Group Support System for Software Requirements Inspection

by Michael Halling, Paul GrÃ¼nbacher, Stefan Biffl

Abstract:

The inspection of early life-cycle artifacts such as requirements documents promises great benefits. However, research demonstrates that the inspection process is complex and expensive and that tool support would be highly desirable. Existing inspection tools focus largely on the inspection of source code. We have therefore devised groupware support for inspecting requirements. Based on our experience with adopting a Group Support System (GSS) for requirements negotiation we decided to tailor this commercial GSS to support inspection of requirements. This paper discusses our concept of a Groupware-supported Requirements Inspection Process (GRIP) and shows that tailoring a COTS GSS works well to automate this process.

Reference:

Michael Halling, Paul GrÃ¼nbacher, Stefan Biffl, "Tailoring a COTS Group Support System for Software Requirements Inspection", IEEE Computer Society, pp. 201, 2001.

Bibtex Entry:

@Conference{Halling2001,
  Title                    = {Tailoring a COTS Group Support System for Software Requirements Inspection},
  Author                   = {Michael Halling and Paul GrÃ¼nbacher and Stefan Biffl},
  Booktitle                = {Proceedings 16th IEEE Int'l Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2001), 26-29 November, Coronado Island, San Diego, CA, USA},
  Year                     = {2001},
  Pages                    = {201},
  Publisher                = {IEEE Computer Society},

  Abstract                 = {The inspection of early life-cycle artifacts such as requirements documents promises great benefits. However, research demonstrates that the inspection process is complex and expensive and that tool support would be highly desirable. Existing inspection tools focus largely on the inspection of source code. We have therefore devised groupware support for inspecting requirements. Based on our experience with adopting a Group Support System (GSS) for requirements negotiation we decided to tailor this commercial GSS to support inspection of requirements. This paper discusses our concept of a Groupware-supported Requirements Inspection Process (GRIP) and shows that tailoring a COTS GSS works well to automate this process.},
  Doi                      = {10.1109/ASE.2001.989806},
  ISBN                     = {0-7695-1426-X},
  Researchr                = {http://researchr.org/publication/HallinGB01}
}