Empirical Analysis of the Impact of Requirements Traceability Quality to the Productivity of Enterprise Applications Development

Author

Saito, Sakuyoshi ; Hoshino, Takashi ; Takeuchi, Masaru ; Hiraoka, Masatoshi ; Kitani, Tomoya ; Aoyama, Masahito

Author_Institution

Software Innovation Center, NTT Corp., Tokyo, Japan

Volume

1

fYear

2012

fDate

4-7 Dec. 2012

Firstpage

330

Lastpage

333

Abstract

The aim of our research is to empirically analyze the impact of requirements trace ability quality to the productivity of the enterprise applications development. We analyze trace ability links of Requirements Specification Documents (RSDs) collected from the enterprise applications development. These RSDs are classified into two groups in terms of project performance. One group includes RSDs of significant cost overrun projects, another group includes RSDs of normal range cost projects. Our analysis revealed that high quality of trace ability in RSDs significantly reduces the cost overrun in the enterprise applications development.

Keywords

commerce; document handling; formal specification; software quality; systems analysis; RSD; empirical analysis; enterprise applications development; productivity; requirements specification documents; requirements traceability quality; Contracts; IEEE standards; Indexes; Productivity; Software; productivity; statistical analysis; traceability;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering Conference (APSEC), 2012 19th Asia-Pacific

Conference_Location

Hong Kong

ISSN

1530-1362

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-4930-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APSEC.2012.91

Filename

6462674