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In a typical software development project, a requirements
document summarizes the results of the requirements analysis
and becomes the basis for subsequent software development.
In many cases, the quality of the requirements documents
dictates the success of the software development. The need for
determining the quality of requirements documents is
particularly acute when the target applications are large,
complicated, and mission critical. The purpose of this research
is to develop quality indicators to indicate the quality of
requirements statements in a requirements document. To
achieve the goal, the goodness properties of the requirements
statements are adopted to represent the quality of requirements
statements. A suite of complexity metrics of requirements
statements is proposed as the quality indicators and is
developed based upon research of noun phrase (NP) chunks. A
two phased empirical case study is performed to evaluate the
usage of the proposed metrics. By focusing upon the
complexity metrics based on NP chunks, the research aided in
development of complexity indicators of low quality
requirements documents.
