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PDP
2002
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
A Jini Framework for Distributed Service Flexibility
Existing distributed middleware technologies and Enterprise Application frameworks lack in support to service flexibility from both the developer’s and user’s point of view. ...
Domenico Cotroneo, Cristiano di Flora, Stefano Rus...
ICSM
2002
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
A Software Transformation Framework for Quality-Driven Object-Oriented Re-engineering
In re-engineering object-oriented legacy code, it is frequently useful to introduce a design pattern in order to improve specific non-functional requirements (e.g., maintainabili...
Ladan Tahvildari, Kostas Kontogiannis
STEP
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Incorporating Quality Requirements in Software Migration Process
The reengineering of legacy software systems to modern Object Oriented platforms has received significant attention over the past few years. However, most often the reengineering ...
Ying Zou
RE
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Improving the Separation of Non-Functional Concerns in Requirements Artifacts
One of the most important principles in Software Engineering is the separation of concerns. When this principle is correctly applied, it helps to promote comprehensibility, mainta...
Geórgia Maria C. de Sousa, Jaelson Castro
RE
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Identifying Stakeholders and Their Preferences about NFR by Comparing Use Case Diagrams of Several Existing Systems
We present a method to identify stakeholders and their preferences about non-functional requirements (NFR) by using use case diagrams of existing systems. We focus on the changes ...
Haruhiko Kaiya, Akira Osada, Kenji Kaijiri
RE
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Quantifying Non-Functional Requirements: A Process Oriented Approach
In this work, we propose a framework for quantifying non-functional requirements (NFRs). This framework uses quality characteristics of the execution domain, application domain an...
Raquel L. Hill, Jun Wang, Klara Nahrstedt
CD
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Customizing Component-Based Architectures by Contract
This paper presents an approach to describe, deploy and manage component-based applications having dynamic functional and non-functional requirements. The approach is centered on a...
Orlando Loques, Alexandre Sztajnberg
CAISE
2005
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
A Concern-Oriented Requirements Engineering Model
Traditional requirements engineering approaches suffer from the tyranny of the dominant decomposition, with functional requirements serving as the base decomposition and non-functi...
Ana M. D. Moreira, João Araújo, Awai...
ISSTA
2006
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Towards supporting the architecture design process through evaluation of design alternatives
This paper addresses issues involved when an architect explore alternative designs including non-functional requirements; in our approach, non-functional requirements are expresse...
Lihua Xu, Scott A. Hendrickson, Eric Hettwer, Hada...
WER
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Exploiting a Goal-Decomposition Technique to Prioritize Non-functional Requirements
Business stakeholders need to have clear and realistic goals if they want to meet commitments in application development. As a consequence, at early stages they prioritize require...
Maya Daneva, Mohamad Kassab, María Laura Po...