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This paper summarizes the achievements of Stefania Gnesi’s research activity in the area of the natural language requirements analysis and quality evaluation. The development of the QuARS tool has been the pivotal step of this research stream led by Stefania Gnesi at ISTI–CNR. A functional description of the QuARS tool is provided as well as a short report of its evolutions over a decade. The wide use of QuARS in several research and industrial contexts demonstrates the validity and the originality of Stefania’s contribution in such an area of software engineering.
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The research activity described in this paper has been conducted with the active contribution of our friend and colleague Fabrizio Fabbrini departed in 2017.
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Lami, G., Fusani, M., Trentanni, G. (2019). QuARS: A Pioneer Tool for NL Requirement Analysis. In: ter Beek, M., Fantechi, A., Semini, L. (eds) From Software Engineering to Formal Methods and Tools, and Back. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11865. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30985-5_13
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