On Requirements Visualization

Gotel, Olly; Marchese, Francis T.; Morris, Stephen

doi:10.1109/rev.2007.4

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“…Concurrent with the development and evolution of techniques, traceability researchers have emphasized the need to better understand the users, tasks, and project constraints that drive the development and selection of suitable visualizations for traceability purposes [66,39,91,16]. Future tools will no doubt need to provide a collection of visualizations to support di↵erent users and tasks, and these will need to span all areas of an end-to-end traceability process.…”

Section: Selecting Trace Visualizationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Software traceability: trends and future directions

Cleland‐Huang

Gotel²,

Hayes

et al. 2014

Future of Software Engineering Proceedings

232

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Software traceability is a sought-after, yet often elusive quality in software-intensive systems. Required in safety-critical systems by many certifying bodies, such as the USA Federal Aviation Authority, software traceability is an essential element of the software development process. In practice, traceability is often conducted in an ad-hoc, after-the-fact manner and, therefore, its benefits are not always fully realized. Over the past decade, researchers have focused on specific areas of the traceability problem, developing more sophisticated tooling, promoting strategic planning, applying information retrieval techniques capable of semi-automating the trace creation and maintenance process, developing new trace query languages and visualization techniques that use trace links, and applying traceability in specific domains such as Model Driven Development, product line systems, and agile project environments. In this paper, we build upon a prior body of work to highlight the state-of-the-art in software traceability, and to present compelling areas of research that need to be addressed.

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Section: Selecting Trace Visualizationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Software traceability: trends and future directions

Cleland‐Huang

Gotel²,

Hayes

et al. 2014

Future of Software Engineering Proceedings

232

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“…Gotel et al [39] summarize the typical objectives and process of visualization and highlights the main areas in which visualization systems and artifacts have been used to support requirements engineering. Gotel et al [39] also proposed the need for a way to visualize the multi-dimensional nature of requirements to help comprehending on the health of a projects requirements, and thus supporting decision making tasks during the software development process.…”

Section: Requirements Engineering Visualizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Visual analytics for software requirements engineering

Reddivari

2013

2013 21st IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE)

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For many software projects, keeping requirements on track needs an effective and efficient path from data to decision. Visual analytics creates such a path that enables the human to extract insights by interacting with the relevant information. While various requirements visualization techniques exist, few have produced end-to-end values to practitioners. In this dissertation, we advance the literature on visual requirements analytics by characterizing its key components and relationships in a framework. We follow the goal-question-metric paradigm to define the framework by teasing out five conceptual goals (user, data, model, visualization, and knowledge), their specific operationalizations, and their interconnections. The framework allows us to not only assess existing approaches, but also create tool enhancements in a principled manner.We evaluate our enhanced tool supports both qualitatively and quantitatively. First, we evaluate our tool supports qualitatively through a case study where massive, heterogeneous, and dynamic requirements are processed, visualized, and analyzed. Working together with practitioners on a contemporary software project within its real-life context leads to the main ending that visual analytics can help tackle both open-ended visual exploration tasks and well-structured visual exploitation tasks in requirements engineering. In addition, the study helps the practitioners to reach actionable decisions in a wide range of areas relating to their project, ranging from theme and outlier identification, over requirements tracing, to risk assessment. Overall our work illuminates how the data-to-decision analytical capabilities could be improved by the increased interactivity of requirements visualization.Although many new visual analytics tools, techniques and methods are being developed, still there is a lack of understanding of how to evaluate the performance of such tools. We conducted an experiment to assess the performance (time and correctness) of our visual analytics tool support in solving requirements engineering tasks. Our study provides initial evidence and insights for visual analytics in requirements engineering and sheds light on many challenging open questions.

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“…With the increasing complexity of software requirements, understanding and communicating requirements become more difficult, and the intercultural misunderstanding is a major cause to project failure or extended lead time in a distributed development context [31]. Visualization techniques have already been employed to overcome the communication problems in RE fields from requirements elicitation to modeling [32]. Rationale knowledge visualization, in the similar way, can assist stakeholders in understanding the reasoning process underlying the decisions on requirements.…”

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Rationale management challenges in requirements engineering

Liang

Avgeriou²,

2010

2010 Third International Workshop on Managing Requirements Knowledge

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Abstract-Rationale and rationale management have been playing an increasingly prominent role in software system development mainly due to the knowledge demand during system evaluation, maintenance, and evolution, especially for large and complex systems. The rationale management for requirements engineering, as a commencing and critical phase in software development life cycle, is still under-exploited. In this paper, we first survey briefly the state-of-the-art on rationale employment and applications in requirements engineering. Secondly, we identify the challenges in integrating rationale management in requirements engineering activities in order to promote further investigations and define a research agenda on rationale management in requirements engineering.

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On Requirements Visualization

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Cited by 35 publications

References 29 publications

Software traceability: trends and future directions

Software traceability: trends and future directions

Visual analytics for software requirements engineering

Rationale management challenges in requirements engineering

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