Towards Perspicuity Requirements

Abstract

System quality attributes like explainability, transparency, traceability, explicability, interpretability, understand-ability, and the like are given an increasing weight, both in research and in the industry. All of these attributes can be sub-sumed under the term of “perspicuity”. We argue in this vision paper that perspicuity is to be regarded as a meaningful and distinct class of quality attributes from which new requirements along with new challenges arise, and that perspicuity as a requirement is needed for legal, societal, and moral reasons, as well as for reasons of consistency within requirements engineering.

@inproceedings{baumTowardsPerspicuityRequirements2021,
 author = {Kevin Baum and Sarah Sterz and Anne Lauber-Rönsberg and Holger Hermanns},
 booktitle = {2021 IEEE 29th International Requirements Engineering Conference Workshops (REW). IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE-2021)},
 doi = {10.1109/REW53955.2021.00029},
 pages = {159-163},
 publisher = {IEEE},
 title = {Towards Perspicuity Requirements},
 url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9582408},
 year = {2021}
}