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Lessons from Developing Nonfunctional Requirements for a Software Platform
March-April 2012 (vol. 29 no. 2)
pp. 74-80
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Xiping Song, Beatrice Hwong, Johannes Ros, "Lessons from Developing Nonfunctional Requirements for a Software Platform," IEEE Software, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 74-80, March-April, 2012.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/MS.2011.69,
author = {Xiping Song and Beatrice Hwong and Johannes Ros},
title = {Lessons from Developing Nonfunctional Requirements for a Software Platform},
journal ={IEEE Software},
volume = {29},
number = {2},
issn = {0740-7459},
year = {2012},
pages = {74-80},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MS.2011.69},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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KW - information systems
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Xiping Song, Siemens Corporate Research
Beatrice Hwong, Siemens Corporate Research
Johannes Ros, Siemens Corporate Research
Employing a software platform is an approach to achieve a higher degree of software reuse by enabling multiple software products to share the platform-provided services. However, platform development usually involves stakeholders from different application domains. Their application situations vary widely and thus nonfunctional requirements (NFRs) for the software platform must address a wider range of needs than those for a single product. This article describes lessons learned in developing NFRs for a large software platform, the challenging issues, and the techniques used to address them. The techniques are pragmatic and helped with NFR reconciliation and management. The improved quality of the NFR specifications has permitted automation of platform performance testing for the past two years.

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Index Terms:
information systems, software design, design, requirements, software platform, requirements engineering, nonfunctional requirements, NFRs, product lines
Citation:
Xiping Song, Beatrice Hwong, Johannes Ros, "Lessons from Developing Nonfunctional Requirements for a Software Platform," IEEE Software, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 74-80, March-April 2012, doi:10.1109/MS.2011.69
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