An Approach to Requirements Encapsulation with Clustering

Requirements encapsulation means organizing software requirements into a set of requirements clusters with tight cohesion along with external interfaces such that each cluster can be ultimately implemented by a functionality module. We propose an approach to encapsulating requirements which includes two steps: clustering requirements based on the similarity and associativity relations and then encapsulating each cluster by defining its external interface as stimulus-response pairs. The potential benefits of encapsulating requirements are reduced software development and maintenance costs.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: WER
• Authors: Zude Li, Quazi Abidur Rahman, Nazim H. Madhavji
• Keywords: Requirements, Requirements Clusters, Requirements Encapsulation, Software Engineering, WER 2007