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Data-Driven Elicitation of Quality Requirements in Agile Companies

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Quality of Information and Communications Technology (QUATIC 2019)

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Abstract

Quality Requirements (QRs) are a key artifact to ensure the quality and success of a software system. Despite its importance, QRs have not reached the same degree of attention as its functional counterparts, especially in the context of trending software development methodologies like Agile Software Development (ASD). Moreover, crucial information that can be obtained from data sources of a project under development (e.g. JIRA, github,…) are not fully exploited, or even neglected, in QR elicitation activities. In this work, we present a data-driven approach to semi-automatically generate and document QRs in the context of ASD. We define an architecture focusing on the process and the artefacts involved. We validate and iterate on such architecture by conducting workshops in four companies of different size and profile. Finally, we present the implementation of such architecture, considering the feedback and outcomes of the conducted workshops.

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    https://github.com/q-rapids (modules qr-alert, qr-generation and qrapids-backlog-*).

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Acknowledgments

This work is a result of the Q-Rapids project, which has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 732253.

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  1. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

    Marc Oriol, Carles Farré & Xavier Franch

  2. University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland

    Pertti Seppänen, Woubshet Behutiye & Pilar Rodríguez

  3. ITTI Sp. z o.o., Poznań, Poland

    Rafal Kozik & Michal Choras

  4. University of Science and Technology, UTP, Bydgoszcz, Poland

    Rafal Kozik & Michal Choras

  5. Fraunhofer IESE, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Silverio Martínez-Fernández

  6. NOKIA, Oulu, Finland

    Sanja Aaramaa

  7. Softeam, Paris, France

    Antonin Abhervé

  8. Bittium Wireless Ltd., Oulu, Finland

    Jari Partanen

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Oriol, M. et al. (2019). Data-Driven Elicitation of Quality Requirements in Agile Companies. In: Piattini, M., Rupino da Cunha, P., García Rodríguez de Guzmán, I., Pérez-Castillo, R. (eds) Quality of Information and Communications Technology. QUATIC 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1010. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29238-6_4

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