A methodology for creating an IEEE standard 830-1998 software requirements specification document

Software intensive systems are developed to provide solutions in some problem domain and software engineering principles are employed to develop and implement such systems. Software engineering principles should enhance development and production of software artifacts and yet the artifacts often lack in quality. Crucial in the development process are requirements engineering activities and methods for software documentation. This research focused on requirements engineering activities, software requirement documentation and a new approach incorporating ontology engineering principles. The resulting system utilized the benefits of intelligent reasoning to elicit, automatically verify, extract and document software requirements. The resulting Software Requirements Specification documents produced from within this environment conformed to Standard 830-1998 promulgated by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).