Identifying Architecturally Significant Functional Requirements

Stimulating architectural thinking during requirements elicitation : an approach and tool support

“…This approach is used in social sciences to construct general propositions (called a 'theory' in this approach) from textual data. This study is published in [33,34]. The key findings of this study are: (1) SRSs often lack crucial architecturally relevant information needed to make informed architectural decisions, (2) PQs are an essential mechanism for unearthing underspecified architecturally relevant information, (3) identification of a total of 15 categories of ASFRs, each with its own set of PQs, (4) and there is a logical way to sequence the PQs during the requirements elicitation process.…”

“…The majority of the research presented in this dissertation has been published previously. The chapters are based on the following publications [33,34,35…”

“…This chapter details the qualitative studies that we carried out to understand how architects perceive ASFRs, which categories of ASFRs exist in the covered domains, what kind of information is discoverable using Probing Questions (PQs) and how do SAs use these PQs to infer and explicate hidden architectural impact. This chapter is largely based on two publications [33] and [34].…”

“…The preliminary proof-of-concept experiment that we conducted is reported in [33]. In this experiment, we trained a classifier to detect 10 different categories of ASFRs.…”

“…The study presented in this chapter is motivated by the findings from our previous qualitative interview-based study [33,34] that we described in chapter 4. For the benefit of the reader, we briefly summarize the studies from our previous chapter here.…”