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An Empirical Study on the Relationship between Defective Requirements and Test Failures
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Robert W. Ferguson, Giuseppe Lami, "An Empirical Study on the Relationship between Defective Requirements and Test Failures," Software Engineering Workshop, Annual IEEE/NASA Goddard, pp. 7-10, 30th Annual IEEE/NASA Software Engineering Workshop SEW-30 (SEW'06), 2006.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/SEW.2006.9,
author = {Robert W. Ferguson and Giuseppe Lami},
title = {An Empirical Study on the Relationship between Defective Requirements and Test Failures},
journal ={Software Engineering Workshop, Annual IEEE/NASA Goddard},
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year = {2006},
issn = {1550-6215},
pages = {7-10},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/SEW.2006.9},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
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Robert W. Ferguson, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Giuseppe Lami, Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie dell'Informazione "A.Faedo", Italy
The quality of software products depends on the quality of the requirements used to create them. Expressiveness (i.e., the ability to convey the intended meaning by avoiding ambiguities and readability problems) is an important quality characteristic of natural language requirements. This paper describes an empirical study that used data from an industrial software project to identify possible relationships between expressiveness defects in natural language requirements and failures during testing. The study shows that test failures occur more frequently when there exist requirements cases with expressiveness defects.
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Robert W. Ferguson, Giuseppe Lami, "An Empirical Study on the Relationship between Defective Requirements and Test Failures," sew, pp.7-10, 30th Annual IEEE/NASA Software Engineering Workshop SEW-30 (SEW'06), 2006
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