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User-Constrained Clustering in Online Requirements Forums

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Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ 2015)

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[Context & motivation:] Software development projects involving geographically dispersed stakeholders often use web-based discussion forums to gather feature requests. Our previous study showed that users have a tendency to create redundant threads as well as large unfocused mega-threads. [Question/problem:] In this paper we propose novel solution for integrating user feedback into the process of dynamically and iteratively clustering features into discussion threads. [Principal ideas/results:] We integrate feed back in the form of stick-together and move-apart advice, plus user-defined tags into our consensus based clustering process. [Contribution:] Experimental results demonstrate that our approach is able to deliver high quality and stable clusters to facilitate forum-based requirements elicitation.

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  1. DePaul University, Chicago, IL, 60422, USA

    Chuan Duan, Horatiu Dumitru, Jane Cleland-Huang & Bamshad Mobasher

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Duan, C., Dumitru, H., Cleland-Huang, J., Mobasher, B. (2015). User-Constrained Clustering in Online Requirements Forums. In: Fricker, S., Schneider, K. (eds) Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality. REFSQ 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9013. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16101-3_21

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