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Requirements Change Requests Classification: An Ontology-Based Approach

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Requirements for software system projects are becoming increasingly exposed to a large number of change requests. Change requests captured in natural language are difficult to analyze and evaluate. This may lead to major problems, such as requirements creep and ambiguity. To provide an appropriate understanding of a change request in a systematic way, this paper aims to develop an ontology for classifying change requests as either functional changes (FC) or technical changes (TC). Technical changes are further classified into nine categories including the ISO 25010 quality characteristics and Project requirement and constraints. To establish a comprehensive representation of change requests, we collected users’ reviews from PROMISE repository and classified them using the protégé editor. The feasibility of the proposed approach is illustrated through examples taken from PROMISE repository.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    http://promise.site.uottawa.ca/SERepository/datasets-page.html.

  2. 2.

    https://www.w3.org/OWL/.

  3. 3.

    https://www.w3.org/TR/sw-oosd-primer/.

  4. 4.

    https://www.w3.org/Submission/SWRL/.

  5. 5.

    https://github.com/stardog-union/DLQuery.

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  1. Higher Institute of Computer Science and Multimedia, University of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia

    Zaineb Sakhrawi, Asma Sellami & Nadia Bouassida

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  1. Scientific Network for Innovation and Research Excellence, Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR), Auburn, WA, USA

    Ajith Abraham

  2. Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Ma, Creteil Cedex, France

    Patrick Siarry

  3. School of Information Science and Engineering, University of Jinan, Jinan, Shandong, China

    Kun Ma

  4. Department of Construction Management and Real Estate, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Vilnius, Lithuania

    Arturas Kaklauskas

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Sakhrawi, Z., Sellami, A., Bouassida, N. (2021). Requirements Change Requests Classification: An Ontology-Based Approach. In: Abraham, A., Siarry, P., Ma, K., Kaklauskas, A. (eds) Intelligent Systems Design and Applications. ISDA 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1181. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49342-4_47

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