ARE_Miner: A web based automated tool to extract software requirements from app reviews.

Introduction

This application provides an easy-to-use tool to automatically extract software requirements from app reviews. It uses encoder-decoder based model architecture to extract requirements.

Server

This application provides two APIs as described below.

/eda : This API helps to get an exploratory analysis on the input data.

• The input is a CSV file containing App, Review, and Date columns. Sample file is shown below:

  App,Review,Date
  PhotoEditor,Too many ads and secondly erratic interface.,8/27/2018 20:55
  PhotoEditor,There are so many ads popping up that the app is now unusable because an ad pops up literally every time I close the last.,9/27/2018 20:55
  

• The output is a json object in the below format.

  {
      "avg_word_count": 16.0,
      "sentiment_distribution": {
          "sentiment": number_of_reviews,
          "positive": 2
      },
      "app_distribution": {
          "app_name": number_of_reviews,
          "PhotoEditor": 2
      },
      "time_distribution": {
          "year-month": number_of_reviews,
          "2018-08": 1,
          "2018-09": 1
      },
      "records": {
          "0": {
              "App": "PhotoEditor",
              "Review": "Too many ads and secondly erratic interface.",
              "Date": "8/27/2018 20:55",
              "sentiment": "positive",
              "word_count": 7
          },
          "1": {
              "App": "PhotoEditor",
              "Review": "There are so many ads popping up that the app is now unusable because an ad pops up literally every time I close the last.",
              "Date": "9/27/2018 20:55",
              "sentiment": "positive",
              "word_count": 25
          }
      }
  }
  

/extract_requirements : This API helps to extract requirements and get exploratory analysis on the output.

• The input is a CSV file containing App, Review, and Date columns. Sample file is shown below:

  App,Review,Date
  PhotoEditor,Too many ads and secondly erratic interface.,8/27/2018 20:55
  PhotoEditor,There are so many ads popping up that the app is now unusable because an ad pops up literally every time I close the last.,9/27/2018 20:55
  

• The output is a json object in the below format.

  {
      "records": {
          "0": {
              "App": "PhotoEditor",
              "Review": "Too many ads and secondly erratic interface.",
              "Date": "8/27/2018 20:55",
              "requirements": []
          },
          "1": {
              "App": "PhotoEditor",
              "Review": "There are so many ads popping up that the app is now unusable because an ad pops up literally every time I close the last.",
              "Date": "9/27/2018 20:55",
              "requirements": [
                  {
                      "requirement": "so many ads",
                      "sentiment": "positive"
                  },
                  {
                      "requirement": "that",
                      "sentiment": "positive"
                  },
                  {
                      "requirement": "app is",
                      "sentiment": "positive"
                  },
                  {
                      "requirement": "every",
                      "sentiment": "positive"
                  }
              ]
          }
      },
      "distribution_over_apps": {
          "app_name": number_of_requirements,
          "PhotoEditor": 4
      },
      "word_count_distribution": {
          "word_count": number_of_requirements,
          "3": 1,
          "1": 2,
          "2": 1
      },
      "sentiment_distribution": {
          "sentiment": number_of_requirements,
          "positive": 4
      },
      "distribution_over_reviews": {
          "number_of_requirements": number_of_reviews,
          "0": 1,
          "4": 1
      },
      "distribution_over_time": {
          "year-month": number_of_requirements,
          "2018-08": 0,
          "2018-09": 4
      }
  }