Supporting Q&A Processes in Requirements Elicitation: Bad Smell Detection and Version Control

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Abstract

In the process of developing requirements specifications, a requirements analyst conducts question-and-answer (Q&A) sessions iteratively to incrementally make more complete initial requirements preobtained from stakeholders. However, iterated Q&A sessions often have some problems leading to a final requirements specification of lower quality. This paper presents the usage of a graph database system to identify bad smells in Q&A processes, which are symptoms leading to a lower quality product, and to control the versions of a list of requirements through the activities. In this system, the records of the Q&A activities and the requirements lists are structured and stored in a graph database Neo4j. Cypher, a database manipulation language, was used to show that we could retrieve bad smells in the Q&A process and visualize any version of the requirements list evolving through the processes.

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@inproceedings{imahori-quatic2024,
    author = {Yui Imahori and Junzo Kato and Shinpei Hayashi and Atsushi Ohnishi and Motoshi Saeki},
    title = {Supporting {Q\&A} Processes in Requirements Elicitation: Bad Smell Detection and Version Control},
    booktitle = {Quality of Information and Communications Technology: Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology},
    pages = {253--268},
    doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-70245-7_18},
    year = 2024,
}