Bridging the Gap between Requirements Engineering and Software Architecture: A Problem-Oriented and Quality-Driven Method

✍ Scribed by Azadeh Alebrahim (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Vieweg
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 514
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book systematically identifies the lack of methodological support for development of requirements and software architecture in the state-of-the-art. To overcome this deficiency, the QuaDRA framework is proposed as a problem-oriented approach. It provides an instantiation of the Twin Peaks model for supporting the intertwining relationship of requirements and software architecture. QuaDRA includes several structured methods which guide software engineers in quality- and pattern-based co-development of requirements and early design alternatives in an iterative and concurrent manner.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XXVI
Introduction....Pages 1-17
Background....Pages 19-49
Framework for Identifying Meta-Requirements....Pages 51-109
Phase 1: Context Elicitation & Problem Analysis....Pages 111-128
Phase 2: Architectural Pattern Selection & Application....Pages 129-174
Phase 3: Domain Knowledge Analysis....Pages 175-194
Phase 4: Requirements Interaction Analysis....Pages 195-246
Phase 5: Quality-specific Pattern Analysis....Pages 247-288
Phase 6: Quality-specific Pattern Selection & Application....Pages 289-327
Phase 7: Software Architecture Alternatives Derivation....Pages 329-351
Phase 8: Software Architecture Alternatives Evaluation....Pages 353-388
Validation of the QuaDRA Framework....Pages 389-402
Extending Problem-Oriented Requirements Engineering for SPL....Pages 403-429
Conclusions....Pages 431-441
Back Matter....Pages 443-500

✦ Subjects

Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems