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Conflict Identification with EA-Analyzer

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Aspect-Oriented Requirements Engineering

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Conflict identification in Aspect-Oriented Requirements Engineering (AORE) is an integral step toward resolving conflicting dependencies between requirements at an early stage of the software development. However, to date there has been no work supporting detection of conflicts in a large set of textual requirements without converting texts into an alternative representation (such as models or formal specification) or direct stakeholder involvement. Here, we present EA-Analyzer, an automated tool for identifying conflicts directly in aspect-oriented requirements specified in natural language text. This chapter is centered on a case study-based discussion of the accuracy of the tool. EA-Analyzer is applied to the Crisis Management System, a case study used as an established benchmark in several areas of aspect-oriented research.

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    Please note that grammar and semantics are used in RDL composition definitions, as discussed previously. Thus, they are indispensable in the task of collecting the required bags or words. Once such words are collected, in the EA-Analyzer learning phase, the grammar and semantics are not used any further.

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  1. INESC-ID and Instituto Superior Técnico, UTL, Lisbon, Portugal

    Alberto Sardinha

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK

    Ruzanna Chitchyan

  3. Departamento de Informática, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal

    João Araújo & Ana Moreira

  4. Computing Department, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK

    Awais Rashid

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  2. University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

    Ruzanna Chitchyan

  3. Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal

    João Araújo

  4. University of Lancaster, Lancaster, United Kingdom

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Sardinha, A., Chitchyan, R., Araújo, J., Moreira, A., Rashid, A. (2013). Conflict Identification with EA-Analyzer. In: Moreira, A., Chitchyan, R., Araújo, J., Rashid, A. (eds) Aspect-Oriented Requirements Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38640-4_11

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