Title :
A systematic mapping study on empirical evaluation of software requirements specifications techniques
Author :
Condori-Fernandez, Nelly ; Daneva, Maya ; Sikkel, Klaas ; Wieringa, Roel ; Dieste, Oscar ; Pastor, Oscar
Author_Institution :
Univ. Politec. de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
Abstract :
This paper describes an empirical mapping study, which was designed to identify what aspects of software requirement specifications (SRS) are empirically evaluated, in which context, and by using which research method. On the basis of 46 identified and categorized primary studies, we found that understandability is the most commonly evaluated aspect of SRS, experiments are the most commonly used research method, and the academic environment is where most empirical evaluation takes place.
Keywords :
formal specification; software engineering; academic environment; empirical evaluation; experimentation; research method; software requirement specification technique; systematic mapping study; understandability; Decision making; Government; Humans; Programming; Proposals; Software engineering; Software libraries; Software maintenance; Software measurement; Specification languages;
Conference_Titel :
Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, 2009. ESEM 2009. 3rd International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Lake Buena Vista, FL
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4842-5
Electronic_ISBN :
1938-6451
DOI :
10.1109/ESEM.2009.5314232