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| Type | Conference or Workshop Paper |
| Scope | Discipline-based scholarship |
| Published in Proceedings | Yes |
| Title | A Qualitative Study on Using GuideGen to Keep Requirements and Acceptance Tests Aligned |
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| Presentation Type | paper |
| Item Subtype | Original Work |
| Refereed | Yes |
| Status | Published in final form |
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| Page Range | 29 - 39 |
| Event Title | 26th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'18) |
| Event Type | conference |
| Event Location | Banff, Alberta, Canada |
| Event Start Date | August 20 - 2018 |
| Event End Date | August 24 - 2018 |
| Place of Publication | Los Alamitos, CA. |
| Publisher | IEEE |
| Abstract Text | Software requirements constantly change, thus impacting all other artifacts of an evolving system. In order to keep the system in a consistent state, changes in requirements should be documented and applied accordingly to all affected artifacts, including acceptance tests. In practice, however, changes in requirements are not always documented nor applied to the affected acceptance tests. This is mostly due to poor communication, lack of time or work overload, and eventually leads to project delays, unintended costs and unsatisfied customers. GuideGen is a tool-supported approach for keeping requirements and acceptance tests aligned. When a requirement is changed, GuideGen automatically generates guidance in natural language on how to modify impacted acceptance tests and communicates this information to the concerned parties. In this paper, we evaluate GuideGen in terms of its perceived usefulness for practitioners and its applicability to real software projects. The evaluation was conducted via interviews with 23 industrial practitioners from ten companies based in Europe. The results indicate that GuideGen is a useful approach that facilitates requirements change management and the communication of changes between requirements and test engineers. The participants also identified potential for improvement, in particular for using GuideGen in large projects. |
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| Digital Object Identifier | 10.1109/RE.2018.00-54 |
| Other Identification Number | merlin-id:17772 |
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