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Software requirements metrics and evaluation process

  • US 6,715,130 B1
  • Filed: 10/05/1998
  • Issued: 03/30/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/05/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method for estimating a metric of a product from a description of the product, said description of the product being in an arbitrary degree of detail, said method comprising the steps ofseparating said description of said product into a plurality of separate single requirements for the product to provide as described in said description of said product, assigning a hierarchy level to respective ones of said separate requirements, detecting key words in respective ones of said requirements, determining a value corresponding to a said key word and a said hierarchy level of the separate single requirement in which said key word is detected, adjusting said value based on said hierarchy level relative to a number of hierarchy levels found in said description to derive an adjusted value for said key word detected by said detecting step, and computing a total of a plurality of said adjusted values.

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