NALABS: Detecting Bad Smells in Natural Language Requirements and Test Specifications, Kostadin Rajkovic, Eduard Paul Enoiu Report - MRTC, Mälardalen Real-Time Research Centre, Mälardalen University ISRN: MDH-MRTC-340/2022-1-SE
[ArXiv] (https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.05641)
- Number of words (NW)
- Number of vague phrases (NV)
- Number of conjunctions (NC)
- Number of reference documents (NRD1 and NRD2)
- Optionality (OP)
- Subjectivity (NS)
- Weakness (WK)
- Automated Readability Index
- Imperatives (NI1 and NI2)
- Continuances (CT) and others...
More details about NALABS can be found in http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1332337&dswid=9711
NALABS is composed of two main components: the GUI as the main program executable and the metrics used as proxy for bad smells.
The latest release of the NALABS executable can be downloaded from GitHub on the releases page. Alternatively, it can be built from source code. You can use different methods to build an application: the Visual Studio IDE and the MSBuild command-line tools.
Add the package Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel using the NuGet Package Manager.
First change some settings. Choose Edit/Settings menu tab. In the Excel view you should choose the REQ ID and Text column in the requirement excel document.
To open a requirement excel file choose the File/Open menu tab
Known bug: When opening a new excel document, please remove the Settings.xml in the Settings folder located in the same place as the executable. This needs to be done since the program might crash.
NALABS has been funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No. 957212 and by the Swedish Innovation Agency (Vinnova) through the XIVT project. This work was partially funded from the Electronic Component Systems for European Leadership Joint Undertaking under grant agreement No. 737494 and The Swedish Innovation Agency, Vinnova (MegaM@Rt2).
NALABS's source code is released under the MIT license