A Traceability Metamodel for Change Management of Non-functional Requirements

M. Kassab; O. Ormanjieva; Maia Daneva

doi:10.1109/SERA.2008.37

A Traceability Metamodel for Change Management of Non-functional Requirements

M. Kassab, O. Ormanjieva, Maia Daneva

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Abstract

Requirements changes are an issue in the software development life cycle which often originates from an incomplete knowledge of the domain of interest. Hardly any requirement manifests in isolation, and usually the provision of one requirement may affect the level of provision of another. Understanding the relations among system requirements is essential to ensuring their consistency and change management. In practice, many organizations either focus their traceability efforts on functional requirements (FRs) or else fail entirely to implement an effective traceability process. Tracing non-functional requirements (NFRs) has, by and large, been neglected. In this paper, we propose a metamodel which explicitly captures NFRs and their relations, and which is independent from any programming paradigm. In addition, we present an implementation using XML-based representations for the metamodel and XQuery queries to represent tracing information.

Original language	Undefined
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 6th ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications, SERA 2008
Editors	W. Dosch, R.Y. Lee, P. Tuma, T Coupaye
Place of Publication	Los Alamitos
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	245-254
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Print)	978-0-7695-3302-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/SERA.2008.37
Publication status	Published - 15 Aug 2008
Event	6th ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications, SERA 2008 - Prague, Czech Republic Duration: 20 Aug 2008 → 22 Aug 2008 Conference number: 6

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Name
Publisher	IEEE Computer Society Press
Number	WoTUG-31
ISSN (Print)	1055-0143

Conference

Conference	6th ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications, SERA 2008
Abbreviated title	SERA 2008
Country/Territory	Czech Republic
City	Prague
Period	20/08/08 → 22/08/08

Keywords

SCS-Services
METIS-254970
IR-65197
EWI-14562

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Kassab, M., Ormanjieva, O., & Daneva, M. (2008). A Traceability Metamodel for Change Management of Non-functional Requirements. In W. Dosch, R. Y. Lee, P. Tuma, & T. Coupaye (Eds.), Proceedings of the 6th ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications, SERA 2008 (pp. 245-254). Article 10.1109/SERA.2008.37 IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/SERA.2008.37

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Kassab, M, Ormanjieva, O & Daneva, M 2008, A Traceability Metamodel for Change Management of Non-functional Requirements. in W Dosch, RY Lee, P Tuma & T Coupaye (eds), Proceedings of the 6th ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications, SERA 2008., 10.1109/SERA.2008.37, IEEE, Los Alamitos, pp. 245-254, 6th ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications, SERA 2008, Prague, Czech Republic, 20/08/08. https://doi.org/10.1109/SERA.2008.37

A Traceability Metamodel for Change Management of Non-functional Requirements. / Kassab, M.; Ormanjieva, O.; Daneva, Maia.
Proceedings of the 6th ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications, SERA 2008. ed. / W. Dosch; R.Y. Lee; P. Tuma; T Coupaye. Los Alamitos: IEEE, 2008. p. 245-254 10.1109/SERA.2008.37.

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Kassab M, Ormanjieva O, Daneva M. A Traceability Metamodel for Change Management of Non-functional Requirements. In Dosch W, Lee RY, Tuma P, Coupaye T, editors, Proceedings of the 6th ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications, SERA 2008. Los Alamitos: IEEE. 2008. p. 245-254. 10.1109/SERA.2008.37 doi: 10.1109/SERA.2008.37