Friday, February 23, 2018

Paper accepted at 30th International Conference on Advance Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE 2018)

Data-Driven Elicitation, Assessment and Documentation of Quality Requirements in Agile Software Development

Xavier Franch, Cristina Gómez, Andreas Jedlitschka, Lidia López, Silverio Martínez-Fernández, Marc Oriol, Jari Partanen

Abstract. Quality Requirements (QRs) are difficult to deal with in agile software development. Given the pressure to deploy fast, quality concerns are often sacrificed for the sake of richer functionality. In addition, artefacts like user stories are not particularly well-suited for representing QRs. In this exploratory paper, we envisage a data-driven method, called Q-Rapids, to QR elicitation, assessment and documentation in agile software development. Q-Rapids proposes: 1) The collection and analysis of design and runtime data in order to raise quality alerts; 2) The suggestion of candidate QRs to address these alerts; 3) A strategic analysis of the impact of such requirements by visualizing their effect on a set of indicators rendered in a dashboard; 4) The documentation of the requirements (if finally accepted) in the backlog. The approach is illustrated with three scenarios evaluated through a questionnaire by experts from a telecom company.

 CAISE 2018

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