NDLI: An Exploratory Study of Information Retrieval Techniques in Domain Analysis

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Alves, V. Schwanninger, C. Barbosa, L. Rashid, A. Sawyer, P. Rayson, P. Pohl, C. Rummler, A.
Copyright Year	2008
Description	Author affiliation: Fraunhofer IESE, Kaiserslautern (Alves, V.)
Abstract	Domain analysis involves not only looking at standard requirements documents (e.g., use case specifications) but also at customer information packs, market analyses, etc. Looking across all these documents and deriving, in a practical and scalable way, a feature model that is comprised of coherent abstractions is a fundamental and non-trivial challenge. We conduct an exploratory study to investigate the suitability of information retrieval (IR) techniques for scalable identification of commonalities and variabilities in requirement specifications for software product lines. Accordingly, based on observations derived from industrial experience and on state-of-the-art research and practice, we also propose an initial framework, leveraging IR to systematically abstract requirements from existing specifications of a given domain into a feature model. We evaluate this framework, present a roadmap for its further extension, and formulate hypotheses to guide future work in exploring IR techniques for domain analysis.
Starting Page	67
Ending Page	76
File Size	763115
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9780769533032
DOI	10.1109/SPLC.2008.18
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2008-09-08
Publisher Place	Ireland
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Analytical models Merging Clustering algorithms Domain Analysis Information retrieval Software Marketing and sales Information Retrieval Portals Software Product Lines
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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