What are the features of this software?: an exploratory study

Application systems are often advertised with features, and features are used heavily for requirements management. However, often software manufacturers only have incomplete information about the features of their software. The information is distributed over different sources, such as requirements...

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Main Authors: Paech, Barbara (Author) , Hübner, Paul (Author) , Merten, Thorsten (Author)
Format: Chapter/Article Conference Paper
Language:English
Published: October 12, 2014
In: ICSEA 2014
Year: 2014, Pages: 97-106
Online Access:Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: http://www.thinkmind.org/index.php?view=article&articleid=icsea_2014_4_30_10270
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Author Notes:Barbara Paech, Paul Hübner, Thorsten Merten
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Summary:Application systems are often advertised with features, and features are used heavily for requirements management. However, often software manufacturers only have incomplete information about the features of their software. The information is distributed over different sources, such as requirements documents, issue trackers, user manuals, and code. In this paper, we research the occurrence of feature information in open source software engineering data. We report on a case study with three open source systems. We analyze what information about features can be found in issue trackers and user documentation. Furthermore, we study the abstraction levels on which the features are described, how feature information is related, and we discuss the possibility to discover such information semi-automatically.
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ISBN:9781612083674