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Requirement quality serves as the basis of the whole software development. How to improve and assure the quality of requirements is one of the most difficult issues. Aiming to improve requirement review in a software company, we propose a role-based requirement review process based on the idea that requirement quality should meet needs of all roles involved to the largest extent, and not only determined by the number of defects found in requirements. This process helps reviewers focus on their own concerns and find more defects related to their tasks, and provides a quantitative method to analyze and evaluate the quality of the requirement document. We also provide a case study to illustrate the new process and report some preliminary results.
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Li, J., Hou, L., Qin, Z., Wang, Q., Chen, G. (2008). An Empirically–Based Process to Improve the Practice of Requirement Review. In: Wang, Q., Pfahl, D., Raffo, D.M. (eds) Making Globally Distributed Software Development a Success Story. ICSP 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5007. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-79588-9_13
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