GuideGen: An approach for keeping requirements and acceptance tests aligned via automatically generated guidance

Hotomski, Sofija; Glinz, Martin

doi:10.1016/j.infsof.2019.01.011

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“…Robeer et al [32] propose the Visual Narrator tool that generates conceptual models from user stories by combining several NLP heuristics. Hotomski and Glinz [33] propose the GuideGen approach that generates natural language guidance when the acceptance test needs to be aligned with the requirements definitions. Gemkow et al [6] propose a method for glossary term extraction from largescale requirements documents by using several NLP techniques and statistical filtering.…”

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A Framework To Improve User Story Sets Through Collaboration

Köse¹,

Aydemir²

2023

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Agile methodologies have become increasingly popular in recent years. Due to its inherent nature, agile methodologies involve stakeholders with a wide range of expertise and require interaction between them, relying on collaboration and customer involvement. Hence, agile methodologies encourage collaboration between all team members so that more efficient and effective processes are maintained. Generating requirements can be challenging, as it requires the participation of multiple stakeholders who describe various aspects of the project and possess a shared understanding of essential concepts. One simple method for capturing requirements using natural language is through user stories, which document the agreed-upon properties of a project. Stakeholders try to strive for completeness while generating user stories, but the final user story set may still be flawed. To address this issue, we propose SCOUT: Supporting Completeness of User Story Sets, which employs a natural language processing pipeline to extract key concepts from user stories and construct a knowledge graph by connecting related terms. The knowledge graph and different heuristics are then utilized to enhance the quality and completeness of the user story sets by generating suggestions for the stakeholders. We perform a user study to evaluate SCOUT and demonstrate its performance in constructing user stories. The quantitative and qualitative results indicate that SCOUT significantly enhance the quality and completeness of the user story sets. Our contribution is threefold. First, we develop heuristics to suggest new concepts to include in user stories by considering both the individuals' and other team members' contributions. Second, we implement an open-source collaborative tool to support writing user stories and ensuring their quality. Third, we share the experimental setup and materials.

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A Framework To Improve User Story Sets Through Collaboration

Köse¹,

Aydemir²

2023

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“…GuideGen 1 is a tool-supported approach for automatically generating guidance on how to update acceptance tests when their corresponding requirements change [6], [10]. To make this paper more self-contained, we briefly describe the Guide-Gen method and tool with a running example from the healthcare domain.…”

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“…A list of suggestions generated by GuideGen the warning flag from the list of requirements. More details about the GuideGen tool can be found in [10].…”

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A Qualitative Study on using GuideGen to Keep Requirements and Acceptance Tests Aligned

Hotomski

Glinz

2018

2018 IEEE 26th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE)

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Software requirements constantly change, thus impacting all other artifacts of an evolving system. In order to keep the system in a consistent state, changes in requirements should be documented and applied accordingly to all affected artifacts, including acceptance tests. In practice, however, changes in requirements are not always documented nor applied to the affected acceptance tests. This is mostly due to poor communication, lack of time or work overload, and eventually leads to project delays, unintended costs and unsatisfied customers. GuideGen is a tool-supported approach for keeping requirements and acceptance tests aligned. When a requirement is changed, GuideGen automatically generates guidance in natural language on how to modify impacted acceptance tests and communicates this information to the concerned parties. In this paper, we evaluate GuideGen in terms of its perceived usefulness for practitioners and its applicability to real software projects. The evaluation was conducted via interviews with 23 industrial practitioners from ten companies based in Europe. The results indicate that GuideGen is a useful approach that facilitates requirements change management and the communication of changes between requirements and test engineers. The participants also identified potential for improvement, in particular for using GuideGen in large projects.

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“…Finalmente se realizó el análisis cualitativo en función al tipo de estudio que llevan adelante cada uno de los artículos seleccionados. Así, se destacan las propuestas de GuideGuen [47] y AGILUS pues en ambos casos las herramientas fueron evaluadas en estudios de casos donde los actores formaban parte de empresas de desarrollo de software.…”

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Framework para la evaluación de calidad de proyectos ágiles de software

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la actualidad, una condición imperante para el crecimiento de la industria del software es que las empresas ofrezcan productos de mayor calidad, que satisfaga las demandas y exigencias del cliente, pero sobre todo que genere confianza al momento de su uso. Por ello, las empresas de la Industria del Software tienen el desafío de desarrollar estrategias con el objetivo de incrementar la calidad y capacidad de sus procesos y, en consecuencia, la calidad de sus productos y servicios. Este proceso de mejora involucra, por un lado, la adopción de un modelo de calidad adecuado a las características de la empresa, que favorezca la medición y seguimiento de diversos aspectos relacionados al proceso de desarrollo de software. Y, por otro lado, relacionado a lo anterior, resulta necesario automatizar la gestión de elementos del ciclo de desarrollo de software, de forma tal de promover la reducción de costos y la eficiencia en los procesos de obtención de productos finales. En este caso, la filosofía ágil resulta ser el enfoque más adecuado para los entornos de desarrollo actuales, y se posicionan como alternativa a los procesos de desarrollo con alto costo en documentación y procesos excesivamente prolongados. La presente tesis doctoral presenta, AQF (Agile Quality Framework) un framework cuya propuesta integra el diseño y desarrollo de un modelo que permita evaluar la calidad en procesos ágiles de software, y una plataforma que permitirá el seguimiento de proyectos de software ágiles junto a la evaluación sistemática de calidad del proceso de desarrollo. Se pretenden unir esfuerzos con esta iniciativa y motivar a la comunidad académica a trabajar en calidad con las empresas desarrolladoras de software para mejorar la competitividad y la calidad global de esta industria a partir de un framework que se adecúe a sus realidades y les permita mejorar sus procesos fácilmente.

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GuideGen: An approach for keeping requirements and acceptance tests aligned via automatically generated guidance

Cited by 8 publications

References 24 publications

A Framework To Improve User Story Sets Through Collaboration

A Framework To Improve User Story Sets Through Collaboration

A Qualitative Study on using GuideGen to Keep Requirements and Acceptance Tests Aligned

Framework para la evaluación de calidad de proyectos ágiles de software

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