Validating an Evaluation Framework for Requirements Engineering Tools

2011 ◽  
pp. 148-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raimundas Matulevicius
Keyword(s):  
Requirements Engineering ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Evaluation Framework ◽  
Requirements Specification ◽  
Validation Process ◽  
Acquisition Process ◽  
Automated Support ◽  
Maintenance Process ◽  
Word Processors ◽  
Organizational Needs

Automated support for the requirements engineering (RE) process is a recognized research area. However, the mainstream practice still relies on word processors and drawing tools rather than the requirements engineering tools (RETs). The aim of this chapter is to validate an evaluation framework for RETs. The validation process concerns an RET acquisition process for concrete organizational needs. An observation of maintaining requirements specification shows the important organizational and environmental characteristics for a proper automated support of RE process. The contribution of this work is twofold: first, the validation of the evaluation framework for RETs according to environmental needs in a specific environment, and second the identification of environmental needs, which emerge from the requirements specification maintenance process.

Requirements Engineering for Courseware Development

2011 ◽  
pp. 170-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ines Grützner ◽  
Barbara Paech
Keyword(s):  
Requirements Engineering ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Comprehensive Analysis ◽  
Further Education ◽  
The State ◽  
Requirements Specification ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Learning Context ◽  
Active Involvement ◽  
The Web

Technology-enabled learning using the Web and the computer and courseware, in particular, is becoming more and more important as an addition, extension, or replacement of traditional further education measures. This chapter introduces the challenges and possible solutions for requirements engineering (RE) in courseware development projects. First the state-of-the-art in courseware requirements engineering is analyzed and confronted with the most important challenges. Then the IntView methodology is described as one solution for these challenges. The main features of IntView RE are: support of all roles from all views on courseware RE; focus on the audience supported by active involvement of audience representatives in all activities; comprehensive analysis of the sociotechnical environment of the audience and the courseware as well as of the courseware learning context; coverage of all software RE activities; and development of an explicit requirements specification documentation.

Towards eGovernment in the Large

2011 ◽  
pp. 227-243
Author(s):  
Thomas Matheis ◽  
Jörg Ziemann ◽  
Peter Loos ◽  
Daniel Schmidt ◽  
Maria Wimmer
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Requirements Engineering ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Evaluation Framework ◽  
European Research ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Engineering Process ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Requirements Engineering Process ◽  
European Research Project

An increasing level of cooperation between public administrations nowadays on national, regional and local level requires methods to develop interoperable eGovernment solutions and leads to the necessity of an efficient evaluation and requirements engineering process that guides the establishment of systems and services used by public administrations in the European Union. In this chapter, the authors propose a framework to systematically gather and evaluate requirements for eGovernment in the large. The evaluation framework is designed to support requirements engineers to develop a suitable evaluation and requirements engineering process with respect to interoperable eGovernment solutions. The methodology is motivated and explained on the basis of a European research project.

A Security Requirements Engineering Tool for Domain Engineering in Software Product Lines

2011 ◽  
pp. 73-92
Author(s):  
Jesús Rodríguez ◽  
Eduardo Fernández-Medina ◽  
Mario Piattini ◽  
Daniel Mellado
Keyword(s):  
Requirements Engineering ◽  
Software Product Lines ◽  
Product Line ◽  
Security Requirements ◽  
Engineering Process ◽  
Product Lines ◽  
Requirements Engineering Process ◽  
Security Requirements Engineering ◽  
Software Product ◽  
Automated Support

The concepts of Service-Oriented Architectures and Software Product Lines are currently being paid a considerable amount of attention, both in research and in practice. Both disciplines promise to make the development of flexible, cost-effective software systems possible and to support high levels of reuse, and may sometimes be complementary to each other. In both paradigms, security is a critical issue, although most of the existing product line practices do not comprise all the security requirements engineering activities or provide automated support through which to perform these activities, despite the fact that it is widely accepted that the application of any requirements engineering process or methodology is much more difficult without a CARE (Computer-Aided Requirements Engineering) tool, since it must be performed manually. Therefore, this chapter shall present a tool denominated as SREPPLineTool, which provides automated support through which to facilitate the application of the security quality requirements engineering process for software product lines, SREPPLine. SREPPLineTool simplifies the management of security requirements in product lines by providing us with a guided, systematic and intuitive manner in which to deal with them from the early stages of product line development, thus simplifying the management and the visualization of artefact variability and traceability links and the integration of security standards, along with the management of the security reference model proposed by SREPPLine.

scholarly journals Jogo para apoio ao ensino-aprendizagem de especificação de requisitos

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
João Vitor Demaria Venâncio ◽  
Fabiane Barreto Vavassori Benitti
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Requirements Engineering ◽  
Software Design ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Process Research ◽  
Requirements Specification ◽  
Software Requirements ◽  
Software Development Process ◽  
Mobile Game ◽  
Specification Techniques

Requirements Engineering is concerned with identifying, analyzing,documenting and managing software requirements, which is an importantphase in the software development process. Research showsthat most software design failures are due to requirements engineeringissues. Thus, we propose a solution for the active learningof requirements specification techniques. Considering that the userstory technique is currently well accepted by IT companies, thispaper proposes a mobile game that supports learning and practicein writing user stories.

scholarly journals Constructing a software requirements specification and design for electronic IT news magazine system

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. 104-118
Author(s):  
Al-Msie’deen et al. ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Requirements Engineering ◽  
Requirements Specification ◽  
Software Requirements ◽  
Functional Requirements ◽  
Engineering Process ◽  
Software Specification ◽  
Research Framework ◽  
News Magazine ◽  
Software Requirements Specification ◽  
Electronic Magazine

Requirements engineering process intends to obtain software services and constraints. This process is essential to meet the customer's needs and expectations. This process includes three main activities in general. These are detecting requirements by interacting with software stakeholders, transferring these requirements into a standard document, and examining that the requirements really define the software that the client needs. Functional requirements are services that the software should deliver to the end-user. In addition, functional requirements describe how the software should respond to specific inputs, and how the software should behave in certain circumstances. This paper aims to develop a software requirements specification document of the electronic IT news magazine system. The electronic magazine provides users to post and view up-to-date IT news. Still, there is a lack in the literature of comprehensive studies about the construction of the electronic magazine software specification and design in conformance with the contemporary software development processes. Moreover, there is a need for a suitable research framework to support the requirements engineering process. The novelty of this paper is the construction of software specification and design of the electronic magazine by following the Al-Msie'deen research framework. All the documents of software requirements specification and design have been constructed to conform to the agile usage-centered design technique and the proposed research framework. A requirements specification and design are suggested and followed for the construction of the electronic magazine software. This study proved that involving users extensively in the process of software requirements specification and design will lead to the creation of dependable and acceptable software systems.

scholarly journals A Survey on Formal Specification and Verification of Smart Mass Transit Railway Interlocking System

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 671-682
Author(s):  
Lokanna Kadakolmath ◽  
Umesh D. Ramu
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Mass Transit ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Requirements Specification ◽  
Urban Mobility ◽  
Functional Requirements ◽  
Catastrophic Loss ◽  
Specification And Verification ◽  
Active Research ◽  
Active Research Area

Nowadays interest in Smart Mass Transit Rail has grown-up to a large extent in a metropolitan area as the need for urban mobility has increased steadily. The reliability of software being used in such mass transit rail is crucial for us, specifically when software crashes may lead to catastrophic loss of human life and assets. For example, when we travel by metro it is essential for us that the interlocking system software controlling the metros are accurate so collisions and derailment are prevented. The reliability and safety of such interlocking systems are made on the precise functional requirements specification and verification respectively. Therefore, the precise functional requirements specification and verification of such interlocking systems represent a challenge in an active research area, so in this paper, we survey various articles in this field and discuss their consequences.

scholarly journals Entropy Churn Metrics for Fault Prediction in Software Systems

Entropy ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (12) ◽  
pp. 963
Author(s):  
Arvinder Kaur ◽  
Deepti Chopra
Keyword(s):  
Research Area ◽  
Fault Prediction ◽  
Software Systems ◽  
Important Research ◽  
Resolution Time ◽  
Software Projects ◽  
Code Metrics ◽  
Important Research Area ◽  
Mozilla Firefox ◽  
Maintenance Process

Fault prediction is an important research area that aids software development and the maintenance process. It is a field that has been continuously improving its approaches in order to reduce the fault resolution time and effort. With an aim to contribute towards building new approaches for fault prediction, this paper proposes Entropy Churn Metrics (ECM) based on History Complexity Metrics (HCM) and Churn of Source Code Metrics (CHU). The study also compares performance of ECM with that of HCM. The performance of both these metrics is compared for 14 subsystems of 5different software projects: Android, Eclipse, Apache Http Server, Eclipse C/C++ Development Tooling (CDT), and Mozilla Firefox. The study also analyses the software subsystems on three parameters: (i) distribution of faults, (ii) subsystem size, and (iii) programming language, to determine which characteristics of software systems make HCM or ECM more preferred over others.

Automated support for reuse-based requirements engineering in global software engineering

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (8) ◽  
pp. e1873 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Manuel Carrillo de Gea ◽  
Joaquín Nicolás ◽  
José L. Fernández-Alemán ◽  
Ambrosio Toval
Keyword(s):  
Software Engineering ◽  
Requirements Engineering ◽  
Automated Support ◽  
Global Software Engineering

scholarly journals Investigating Goal-Oriented Requirements Engineering for Business Processes

2013 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geert Poels ◽  
Ken Decreus ◽  
Ben Roelens ◽  
Monique Snoeck
Keyword(s):  
Requirements Engineering ◽  
Business Process ◽  
Business Process Management ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Process Modelling ◽  
Business Strategies ◽  
Business Process Modelling ◽  
Goal Modelling

Business processes are designed to execute strategies that aim at achieving organisational goals. During the last decade, several methods have been proposed that prescribe the use of goal-oriented requirements engineering techniques for supporting different business process management activities, in particular business process modelling. The integration of goal modelling and business process modelling aims at increasing the alignment between business strategies and the processes with their supporting IT systems. This new research area, which the authors call Goal-Oriented Requirements Engineering for Business Processes (GORE-for-BP), is developing rapidly, but without a clear conceptualization of the focus and scope of the proposed GORE-for-BP methods. Furthermore, an overview is lacking of which methods exist and what their level of maturity is. This paper therefore presents a research review of the GORE-for-BP area, with the aim of identifying relevant methods and assessing their focus, scope, and maturity. This study used Systematic Literature Review and Method Meta-Modelling as research methods to identify and evaluate the state of the GORE-for-BP research area and to propose a research agenda for directing future research in the area. Nineteen methods were identified, which is an indication of an active research area. Although some similarities were found with respect to how goal models are transformed into business process models (or vice-versa), there is also considerable divergence in modelling languages used and the extent of coverage of typical requirements engineering and business process management lifecycle phases. Furthermore, the exploitation of requirements engineering techniques in the full business process management lifecycle is currently under researched. Also, the maturity of the methods found in terms of the formalisation of the transformation activity, the elaboration of method guidelines, and the extent to which methods are validated, can be further improved.

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