Tailoring a COTS Group Support System for Software Requirements Inspection

Michael Halling, Stefan Biffl, Paul Grünbacher

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Abstract

The inspection of early life-cycle artifacts such as re-quirements documents promises great benefits. However, research demonstrates that the inspection process is complex and expensive and that tool support would be highly desirable. Existing inspection tools focus largely on the inspection of source code. We have therefore devised groupware support for inspecting requirements. Based on our experience with adopting a Group Support System (GSS) for requirements negotiation we decided to tailor this commercial GSS to support inspection of requirements. This paper discusses our concept of a Groupware-supported Requirements Inspection Process (GRIP) and shows that tailoring a COTS GSS works well to automate this process.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication16th IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering. 2001. San Diego
Number of pages9
Publication statusPublished - 2001

Fields of science

  • 102 Computer Sciences
  • 102022 Software development

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