ABSTRACT

Requirement Engineering (RE) deals with the requirements of a proposed solution and handles conflicting requirements of the various stakeholders and is critical to the success of a project. Good requirement engineering methodologies should be measurable, testable and should be sufficient for system design. Another important aspect of Requirement engineering is to capture the non functional requirements which have to be considered early to avoid system level constraints, security issues and overall quality issues. Typical Non Functional Requirements (NFR) are identified in both structured as well as unstructured documents. With availability of automated tools for requirement tracing and identifying NFRs, one method to find the effectiveness of the requirement engineering methodology in automation is its capability to capture NFR in an effective manner. In this paper we investigate the effectiveness of Information Retrieval (IR) methods for identifying NFRs.