Effort Estimation Approach through Extracting Use Cases via Informal Requirement Specifications

Abstract

Sometimes unclearly describing the requirement specifications of satisfied customer’s needs, means it may be difficult to develop the production of high-quality software systems. A persistent issue of requirement engineering is how to clearly understand the requirements of the large and complex software project, and also how to analyze them exactly. To solve this problem, we propose a linguistic analysis method based on the semantic analysis of the Fillmore’s textual approach. This method extracts use-cases from informal requirement specifications. For applied requirement engineering with this method, we suggest extracting a use-case diagram, as well as calculating the software effort estimation with the original use-case point (UCP). To simply explanations of our use-case extraction method, we use one example of a simple postal information system.

Keywords

• linguist Fillmore’s textual analysis
• use-case point (UCP), natural language oriented informal requirement specification
• case grammar