Stability prediction of the software requirements specification

Abstract

Complex decision-making is a prominent aspect of Requirements Engineering. This work presents the Bayesian network Requisites that predicts whether the requirements specification documents have to be revised. We show how to validate Requisites by means of metrics obtained from a large complex software project. Besides, this Bayesian network has been integrated into a software tool by defining a communication interface inside a multilayer architecture to add this a new decision making functionality. It provides requirements engineers a way of exploring the software requirement specification by combining requirement metrics and the probability values estimated by the Bayesian network.