[ACM Press the 2006 annual research conference of the South African institute of computer scientists and information technologists - Somerset West, South Africa (2006.10.09-2006.10.11)] Proceedings of the 2006 annual research conference of the South African institute of computer scientists and information technologists on IT research in developing couuntries - SAICSIT '06 - Extending model driven architecture benefits to requirements engineering

✍ Scribed by Kabanda, Salah; Adigun, Mathew

• Book ID: 118187064
• Publisher: ACM Press
• Year: 2006
• Weight: 142 KB
• Volume: 0
• Category: Article
• ISBN-13: 9781595935670
• DOI: 10.1145/1216262.1216265

✦ Synopsis

This work focuses on developing a requirement engineering model (RSPL) based on a Model Driven Architecture (MDA) and Web-tier Application Framework (WAF), to support automatic and interactive requirements generation when creating families of systems. In realizing the model, two goals were targeted namely (i) to construct a RE model that support automatic transformation of domain features into actor-specific requirements; and (ii) to design and implement an interactive web based tool for requirements engineering. The result obtained is twofold: (i) adopting MDA during RE for a product line reduced costs and development time; (ii) tool implementation based on WAF ensured that support for different client types was possible.In conclusion, the study is a contribution to a recently advocated idea that requirements generation could be model-driven. The result shows that the idea is promising with respect to requirement reuse and improving communication barriers among members of a system development team.