Abstract
In order to meet commitments in software projects, a realistic assessment must be made of project scope. Such an assessment relies on the availability of knowledge on the user-defined project requirements and their effort estimates and priorities, as well as their risk. This knowledge enables analysts, managers and software engineers to identify the most significant requirements from the list of requirements initially defined by the user. In practice, this scope assessment is applied to the Functional Requirements (FRs) provided by users who are unaware of, or ignore, the Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs). This paper presents ongoing research which aims at managing NFRs during the software development process. Establishing the relative priority of each NFR, and obtaining a rough estimate of the effort and risk associated with it, is integral to the software development process and to resource management. Our work extends the taxonomy of the NFR framework by integrating the concept of the "hardgoal". A functional size measure of NFRs is applied to facilitate the effort estimation process. The functional size measurement method we have chosen is COSMICFFP, which is theoretically sound and the de facto standard in the software industry.
Original language | Undefined |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 33th EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications |
Editors | P. Mueller, P. Lyggesmeyer, E. Maehle |
Place of Publication | Los Alamitos |
Publisher | IEEE Computer Society Press |
Pages | 409-417 |
Number of pages | 9 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-0-7695-2977-6 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 24 Aug 2007 |
Event | 33th EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications, SEAA 2007 - Luebeck, Germany Duration: 28 Aug 2007 → 31 Aug 2007 Conference number: 33 |
Publication series
Name | EUROMICRO |
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Publisher | IEEE Computer Society |
Number | LNCS4549 |
Volume | 33 |
ISSN (Print) | 1089-6503 |
Conference
Conference | 33th EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications, SEAA 2007 |
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Abbreviated title | SEAA |
Country/Territory | Germany |
City | Luebeck |
Period | 28/08/07 → 31/08/07 |
Keywords
- SCS-Services
- IS-REQUIREMENTS
- METIS-241952
- EWI-11146
- IR-61948