In many software application domains, constant evolution is the dominant problem, shaping both software design and the software process. Telecommunication software is the prototyp...
An essential type of “evidence”of the correctness of the requirements formalization process can be provided by human-based calculation. Human calculation can be significantly ...
A logic model checker can be an effective tool for debugging software applications. A stumbling block can be that model checking tools expect the user to supply a formal statement...
Margaret H. Smith, Gerard J. Holzmann, Kousha Etes...
Scenario is a description technique which has attracted much attention not only from practitioners but also from researchers. Literature on this topic shows the possibilities that...
Marcela Ridao, Jorge Horacio Doorn, Julio Cesar Sa...
at different levels of abstraction. There are two very different ways of using such languages. One approach is based on the manifestation of a single model, with construction of di...
pture, at different levels of abstraction, the various objectives the system under consideration should achieve. Goal-oriented requirements engineering is concerned with the use o...
A domain model describes common and variant requirements for a system family. UML notations used in requirements analysis and software modeling can be extended with “variation p...
Many software projects have failed because their requirements were poorly negotiated among stakeholders. Requirements negotiation is more critical than other factors such as tools...
Little guidance and few methods are available to refine a set of software requirements into an architecture satisfying those requirements. Part of the challenge stems from the fac...