Effective information elicit for software quality specification based on ontology

Specification is a kind of efficient way to help improve software quality in software engineering. Many quality related documents in real application development are full of non-effective information. This paper gives method to elicit effective information from software quality specification. A software quality specification ontology model is built as a knowledge support for quality specification. The software quality specification is defined precisely based on an extended ABNF. Effectiveness of requirement is described in two aspects, the formalization level and the proximity. An effective information elicit process is given, by this process, effective blocks of a software quality specification could be elicited out and the ambiguous and irrelevant concepts would be eliminated.