PREREQIR: Recovering Pre-Requirements via Cluster Analysis

High-level software artifacts, such as requirements, domain-specific requirements, and so on, are an important source of information that is often neglected during the reverse- and re-engineering processes. We posit that domain specific pre-requirements information (PRI) can be obtained by eliciting the stakeholders’ understanding of generic systems or domains. We discuss the semi-automatic recovery of domain-specific PRI that can then be used during reverse- and re-engineering, for example, to recover traceability links or to assess the degree of obsolescence of a system with respect to competing systems and the clients’ expectations. We present a method using partition around medoids and agglomerative clustering for obtaining, structuring, analyzing, and labeling textual PRI from a group of diverse stakeholders. We validate our method using PRI for the development of a generic Web browser provided by 22 different stakeholders. We show that, for a similarity threshold of about 0....

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: WCRE
• Authors: Jane Huffman Hayes, Giuliano Antoniol, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc
• Keywords: Domain-specific Pri, Generic Web Browser, Reverse Engineering, Similarity Threshold, WCRE 2008