Christoph Knauf

Der itemis Blog

Christoph Knauf worked as a software craftsman at itemis in Frankfurt am Main. His focus is on software engineering, quality assurance and architectures in agile software projects.

Xtext, Software Development

Xtext and Controlled Natural Languages for Software Requirements (Part 3)

In Part 2 of this series we checked the requirements using NLP techniques in order to validate the use of domain specific concepts in their free text parts. In this part we will annotate the domain specific concepts and provide the user quick fixes to synchronize ...

by Christoph Knauf

Aug 17, 2016

15 min. reading time
Xtext, Software Development

Xtext and Controlled Natural Languages for Software Requirements (Part 2)

In the first part of this series we defined a Xtext grammar based on boilerplates in order to control the use of natural language and create acceptable requirements as they are written. Another approach to improve the quality of textual requirements is the use of ...

by Christoph Knauf

Aug 3, 2016

7 min. reading time
Xtext, Software Development, Language Engineering

Xtext and Controlled Natural Languages for Software Requirements (Part 1)

Stakeholders usually document requirements informally, i.e. in natural language. Often using text processing programs which do not provide any input assistance related to the requirements and do not allow their automated validation or post-processing. This leads ...

by Christoph Knauf

Jul 12, 2016

9 min. reading time

Xtext and Controlled Natural Languages for Software Requirements (Part 3)

Xtext and Controlled Natural Languages for Software Requirements (Part 2)

Xtext and Controlled Natural Languages for Software Requirements (Part 1)