ASE 2024
Sun 27 October - Fri 1 November 2024 Sacramento, California, United States
Tue 29 Oct 2024 11:00 - 11:15 at Carr - Requirement engineering Chair(s): Lina Marsso

Data entry forms use completeness requirements to specify the fields that are required or optional to fill for collecting necessary information from different types of users. However, because of the evolving nature of software, some required fields may not be applicable for certain types of users anymore. Nevertheless, they may still be incorrectly marked as required in the form; we call such fields obsolete required fields. Since obsolete required fields usually have “not-null” validation checks before submitting the form, users have to enter meaningless values in such fields to complete the form submission. These meaningless values threaten the quality of the filled data and could negatively affect stakeholders or learning-based tools that use the data. To avoid users filling meaningless values, existing techniques usually rely on manually written rules to identify the obsolete required fields and relax their completeness requirements. However, these techniques are ineffective and costly. In this article, we propose LACQUER, a learning-based automated approach for relaxing the completeness requirements of data entry forms. LACQUER builds Bayesian Network models to automatically learn condi- tions under which users had to fill meaningless values. To improve its learning ability, LACQUER identifies the cases where a required field is only applicable for a small group of users and uses SMOTE, an oversampling technique, to generate more instances on such fields for effectively mining dependencies on them. During the data entry session, LACQUER predicts the completeness requirement of a target based on the already filled fields and their conditional dependencies in the trained model. Our experimental results show that LACQUER can accurately relax the completeness requirements of required fields in data entry forms with precision values ranging between 0.76 and 0.90 on different datasets. LACQUER can prevent users from filling 20% to 64% of meaningless values, with negative predictive values (i.e., the ability to correctly predict a field as “optional”) between 0.72 and 0.91. Furthermore, LACQUER is efficient; it takes at most 839 ms to predict the completeness requirement of an instance.

Tue 29 Oct

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10:30 - 12:00
Requirement engineeringResearch Papers / NIER Track / Journal-first Papers at Carr
Chair(s): Lina Marsso University of Toronto
10:30
15m
Talk
Getting Inspiration for Feature Elicitation: App Store- vs. LLM-based Approach
Research Papers
Jialiang Wei EuroMov DHM, Univ Montpellier & IMT Mines Ales, Anne-Lise Courbis IMT Mines Alès, Thomas Lambolais IMT Mines Alès, Binbin Xu IMT Mines Alès, Pierre Louis Bernard University of Montpellier, Gerard Dray IMT Mines Alès, Walid Maalej University of Hamburg
Pre-print
10:45
15m
Talk
Efficient Slicing of Feature Models via Projected d-DNNF Compilation
Research Papers
Chico Sundermann University of Ulm, Jacob Loth University of Ulm, Thomas Thüm Paderborn University
11:00
15m
Talk
Learning-based Relaxation of Completeness Requirements for Data Entry Forms
Journal-first Papers
Hichem Belgacem Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Xiaochen Li Dalian University of Technology, Domenico Bianculli University of Luxembourg, Lionel Briand University of Ottawa, Canada; Lero centre, University of Limerick, Ireland
11:15
15m
Talk
Blackbox Observability of Features and Feature Interactions
Research Papers
Kallistos Weis Saarland University, Leopoldo Teixeira Federal University of Pernambuco, Clemens Dubslaff Eindhoven University of Technology, Sven Apel Saarland University
Pre-print
11:30
15m
Talk
AVIATE: Exploiting Translation Variants of Artifacts to Improve IR-based Traceability Recovery in Bilingual Software Projects
Research Papers
Kexin Sun Nanjing University, Yiding Ren Nanjing University, Hongyu Kuang Nanjing University, Hui Gao Nanjing University, Xiaoxing Ma State Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University, Guoping Rong Nanjing University, Dong Shao Nanjing University, He Zhang Nanjing University
Pre-print
11:45
10m
Talk
Translation Titans, Reasoning Challenges: Satisfiability-Aided Language Models for Detecting Conflicting Requirements
NIER Track
Mohamad Fazelnia University of Hawaii at Manoa, Mehdi Mirakhorli University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hamid Bagheri University of Nebraska-Lincoln