Requirement patterns: an approach for streamlining requirements engineering in software product families
Reusable structure is essential in all reuse-based software development processes. This provides a solid foundation for seamless management of reusable artefacts especially in software product line engineering (SPLE). One of the potential benefits provided by a well-defined structure is systema...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English English |
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2019
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/76348/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/76348/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/76348/1/ijatcse79814sl2019.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/76348/7/76348_Requirement%20patterns_scopus.pdf |
| Summary: | Reusable structure is essential in all reuse-based software
development processes. This provides a solid foundation
for seamless management of reusable artefacts especially
in software product line engineering (SPLE). One of the
potential benefits provided by a well-defined structure is
systematic reuse of these artefacts. Requirements pattern
approach provides guidelines for requirement engineers to
reuse and specify requirements. Although a plethora of
research on requirements pattern have been reported in the
literature, no research available focuses on requirement
engineering (RE) activities of SPLE. In this paper, we
present an anatomy of software requirement pattern (SRP)
for SPLE with a structured example from e-learning
domain. To enable practitioners, understand the concept of
requirement pattern more, we present a meta-model for the
SRP concepts and their relationships. In addition, we
describe how the requirement pattern approach,
streamlines RE activities, design for and with reuse in both
domain and application engineering processes of SPLE.
The requirement pattern approach thus helps in achieving
systematic requirements reuse (RR) and generation of
structured software requirement specification (SRS) for
individual applications. |
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