Defining goals in a COTS‐aware requirements engineering approach

Abstract

The goals of developing systems better, faster, and cheaper continue to drive software engineering practitioners and researchers to investigate software engineering methodologies. In requirements engineering, the focus has traditionally been on modeling the software engineering process and products for systems that are being built from scratch. As the size and complexity of systems continues to grow the use of commercial off the shelf (COTS) components is being viewed as a solution. Effective use of COTS components, however, requires a systematic approach that provides both a set of concepts for modeling the subject matter and a set of guidelines for using such concepts. In particular, the process needs to recognize and address the people oriented problems including the identification and resolution of conflicting goals, bridging the gaps between stated requirements and "approximately fitting" components while still satisfying the customer. In this paper, we present a goal and agent oriented requirements engineering process model that explicitly addresses the use of COTS components. More specifically, we present (part of) our model for a COTS-Aware Requirements Engineering (CARE) process and illustrate it using a Digital Library System (DLS).

Big Picture of Big Data Software Engineering: With Example Research Challenges

“…Accordingly, the solution can focus on the speed with which streamed images can be compared and be linked to behavioural data associated with matching images in the image-base. Note that this complements component-based requirements engineering (CARE) [10].…”

Managing change in an OTS-aware requirements engineering approach

“…This approach is an extension of our on-going Component-Aware Technique (CAT) research, whose major emphasis lies in COTS-Aware Requirements Engineering (CARE) and COTS-Aware Software Architecting (CASA) [1][2] [3]. The CAT research maintains a knowledge-based repository for the OTS components, which are represented in terms of goal-/agent-/object-oriented models.…”

4.4.2 Quantifying the Evolution of Goals in Requirements Engineering: A Study on the Quality Assurance Review Assistant Tool

“…The metrics presented in this work are defined and gathered within the context of the requirements engineering approach called CARE (Chung et al 2004). CARE is a knowledge based, agent-oriented and goal-oriented requirements engineering approach.…”