E. A. Gerlits, D. S. Kildishev, A. V. Khoroshilov, “Elicitation of functional requirements from the application programming interface documentation for functional testing”, Proceedings of ISP RAS, 2022, Volume 34, Issue 1,Pages <nobr>7

Elicitation of functional requirements from the application programming interface documentation for functional testing

E. A. Gerlits^a, D. S. Kildishev^a, A. V. Khoroshilov^abcd

^a Ivannikov Institute for System Programming of the RAS
^b Lomonosov Moscow State University
^c Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
^d National Research University Higher School of Economics

Abstract: We address a common problem in this paper. The only available documentation for a computer program consists of a user API documentation while we need to identify functional requirements and build test suite to test them. We describe a technique for functional requirements elicitation from the user API documentation. Requirements management tool Requality is exploited in this technique. The tool has been used in several industrial software verification projects.

Keywords: requirements elicitation, requirements extraction, API documentation, Requality, requirements management, functional requirements, requirements markup, requirements catalog.

DOI: 10.15514/ISPRAS-2022-34(1)-1