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Requirements errors, such as incorrectness and incompleteness are the most common and difficult-to-fix defects in a software development project. In this paper, we describe the enhancement to our tool, TestMEReq with a template-based tests authoring to assist the requirements engineers in writing quality test requirements and test cases for requirements validation at the earliest stage of requirements engineering process. We embed an English language parser that checks the correctness of the test requirements and test cases written by the requirements engineers. In addition, prompt notification and highlight are also provided to visualize the errors and alert the requirements engineers. We conducted a user study to evaluate the usability of the tool and its effectiveness in helping novice requirements engineers to write quality tests.
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We would like to thank Ministry of Education (MOE) Malaysia, Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM), Fulgent Corporation, USA and FRGS: FRGS/1/2014/TK01//FKP/02/F00230 for funding this research. We also thank Noorrezam and Luqman for their assistance in this study.
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Moketar, N.A., Kamalrudin, M., Sidek, S., Akmal, S., Robinson, M. (2016). A Template-Based Test-Authoring Tool to Write Quality Tests for Requirements Validation. In: Lee, SW., Nakatani, T. (eds) Requirements Engineering Toward Sustainable World . APRES 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 671. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3256-1_8
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