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Managing Large Repositories of Natural Language Requirements

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Engineering and Managing Software Requirements

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An increasing number of market and technology driven software development companies face the challenge of managing an enormous amount of requirements written in natural language. As requirements arrive at high pace, the requirements repository easily deteriorates, impeding customer feedback and well-founded decisions for future product releases. In this chapter we introduce a linguistic engineering approach in support of large-scale requirements management. We present three case studies, encompassing different requirements management processes, where our approach has been evaluated. We also discuss the role of natural language requirements and present a survey of research aimed at giving support in the engineering and management of natural language requirements.

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  1. School of Information Systems, Technology and Management, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia

    Aybüke Aurum

  2. School of Engineering, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Box 520, 372 25, Ronneby, Sweden

    Claes Wohlin

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Natt och Dag, J., Gervasi, V. (2005). Managing Large Repositories of Natural Language Requirements. In: Aurum, A., Wohlin, C. (eds) Engineering and Managing Software Requirements. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-28244-0_10

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