A framework for detecting ambiguity in software requirement specification

The accomplishment of any software system success depends on how well it meets the requirements of the stakeholders. These requirements are elicited from the customers. Software requirements are unambiguous if and only if it has one meaning. The elicited requirements are documented in software requirements specification document and these requirements are written in natural languages. Natural languages are basically ambiguous which makes the requirements documented in software requirements specification document unclear. This unclear requirement causes that software developers develop software which is different from the expected software based on the customer needs. The objective of this paper is to propose a framework that are able to detect ambiguity in software requirements specification document automatically using parts of speech tagging technique. To validate the outcome of the proposed work, open source software requirements specification documents will be used and generated result of the proposed work will be evaluated and validated by making comparison between the proposed prototype results and human generated results to decide how the proposed prototype can solved the ambiguity problem.