NDLI: Deriving tabular event-based specifications from goal-oriented requirements models

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Author	De Landtsheer, R. Letier, E. van Lamsweerde, A.
Copyright Year	2003
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. d'Ingenierie Informatique, Univ. Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium (De Landtsheer, R.; Letier, E.; van Lamsweerde, A.)
Abstract	Goal-oriented methods are increasingly popular for elaborating software requirements. They provide systematic support for incrementally building intentional, structural and operational models of the software and its environment together with various techniques for early analysis, e.g., to manage conflicting goals or anticipate abnormal environment behaviors that prevent goals from being achieved. On the other hand, tabular event-based methods are well-established for specifying operational requirements for control software. They provide sophisticated techniques and tools for late analysis of software behavior models through, e.g., simulation, model checking or table exhaustiveness checks. We propose to take the best out of these two worlds to engineer requirements for control software. It presents a technique for deriving event-based specifications, written in the SCR tabular language, from operational specifications built according to the KAOS goal-oriented method. The technique consists in a series of transformation steps each of which resolves semantic, structural or syntactic differences between the KAOS source language and the SCR target language. Some of these steps need human intervention and illustrate the kind of semantic subtleties that need to be taken into account when integrating multiple formalisms. As a result of our technique SCR specifiers may use upstream goal-based processes a la KAOS for the incremental elaboration, early analysis, organization and documentation of their tables while KAOS modelers may use downstream tables a la SCR for later analysis of the behavior models derived from goal specifications.
Sponsorship	IEEE Comput. Soc. IEEE Comput. Soc. Tech. Council on Software Eng.(TCSE) Univ. Twente, Dept. Comput. Sci. Requirements Eng. Journal ACM SigSOFT IFIP Working Group 2.9 Int. Council on Syst. Eng.(INCOSE)
Starting Page	200
Ending Page	210
File Size	323424
Page Count	11
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0769519806
ISSN	1090705X
DOI	10.1109/ICRE.2003.1232751
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2003-09-12
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Thyristors Switches Environmental management Analytical models Embedded software Buildings Software tools Humans Documentation Coolants
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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