Forward engineering completeness for software by using requirements validation framework

Abstract

In software development environment, software companies usually ignore the user requirements validation process in requirement gathering phase, which results in large number of modifications being required in the software maintenance phase to fulfill the customer requirements. Identification of accurate requirements from user stories and determining the effectiveness of work deliverable of software industry has always been a challenging task. In this paper, a new measurement approach for forward engineering completeness for software was introduced by using requirements validation framework. The forward engineering completeness for software was measured in two steps. In the first step, software component structure was developed in order to find the functional and nonfunctional requirements rejected by the customers in the requirement validation framework. In the second step, completeness of software from component-based development was determined in which the following parameters, such as functional, non-functional completeness attributes, were considered in the measurement process, and the unadopted attributes of the reuse code were also considered. Quality level for the attributes were assigned based upon the valuation of interior quality of the source code. Therefore, it resulted in the reduction of development time required for the software and the cost required for the software development was also reduced. A case study was incorporated in this research to explain the measurement process of forward engineering completeness. If the forward engineering code is satisfying the quality standards, then the code is in the completeness form. The attributes of code that negates to be used were considered as unadopted attributes.