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A requirements data model for product service systems

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Author	Berkovich, Marina Leimeister, Jan Marco Hoffmann, Axel Krcmar, Helmut
Copyright Year	2012
Abstract	Product service systems (PSS) are bundles of physical technological elements and service elements that are integrated to solve customer problems. In practice, most components of PSS are developed independently from each other, which leads to problems with coordination of development activities and integration of PSS components. Therefore, an integrated requirements engineering for PSS is needed that deals with the involvement of developers from product engineering, software engineering, and service engineering, as well as the inherent complexity of the PSS and the development process. In a case study with the development department of a PSS provider, we analyzed requirements documents and conducted expert interviews. We identified problems in the development, for example, that requirements on different levels of abstraction are intermingled, rationales for requirements are missing, and the concretization of requirements is unclear. To solve these problems, we propose a requirements data model (RDMod) for requirements to PSS. An RDMod describes different types of requirements and the relations between them. Thus, it is a scheme for the concretization of the requirements, which especially addresses the problems of structuring the requirements, enabling traceability, and finding conflicts. We then used an analytical evaluation, a feature-based evaluation and a retrospective application with requirements analysts of the industry partner. In a joint workshop, we specified requirements for a PSS with the RDMod. In structured interviews, we analyzed the perceived advantages of the RDMod. The experts confirmed that the RDMod is applicable in their development and it provides a clear structure for the requirements and therefore helps overcoming the identified problems.
Starting Page	161
Ending Page	186
Page Count	26
File Format	PDF
ISSN	09473602
Journal	Requirements Engineering
Volume Number	19
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	1432010X
Language	English
Publisher	Springer London
Publisher Date	2012-10-17
Publisher Place	London
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Requirements engineering Requirements data model Artifact model Product service systems PSS Hybrid products Requirements concretization Software Engineering
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Information Systems Software

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