Julian Frattini

A Live Extensible Ontology of Quality Factors for Textual Requirements

2022 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Quality factors like passive voice or sentence length are commonly used in research and practice to evaluate the quality of natural language requirements since they indicate defects in requirements artifacts that potentially propagate to later …

A Second Look at the Impact of Passive Voice Requirements on Domain Modeling: Bayesian Reanalysis of an Experiment

2024

The quality of requirements specifications may impact subsequent, dependent software engineering (SE) activities. However, empirical evidence of this impact remains scarce and too often superficial as studies abstract from the phenomena under investigation too much. …

Adopting Use Case Descriptions for Requirements Specification: an Industrial Case Study

2025 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Context: Use case (UC) descriptions are a prominent format for specifying functional requirements. Existing literature abounds with recommendations on how to write high-quality UC descriptions but lacks insights into (1) their real-world adoption, (2) whether …