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Characterizing Architecturally Significant Requirements
March-April 2013 (vol. 30 no. 2)
pp. 38-45
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Lianping Chen, Muhammad Ali Babar, Bashar Nuseibeh, "Characterizing Architecturally Significant Requirements," IEEE Software, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 38-45, March-April, 2013.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/MS.2012.174,
author = {Lianping Chen and Muhammad Ali Babar and Bashar Nuseibeh},
title = {Characterizing Architecturally Significant Requirements},
journal ={IEEE Software},
volume = {30},
number = {2},
issn = {0740-7459},
year = {2013},
pages = {38-45},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MS.2012.174},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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TY - MGZN
JO - IEEE Software
TI - Characterizing Architecturally Significant Requirements
IS - 2
SN - 0740-7459
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EPD - 38-45
A1 - Lianping Chen,
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A1 - Bashar Nuseibeh,
PY - 2013
KW - Software
KW - Computer architecture
KW - Software architecture
KW - Organizations
KW - Interviews
KW - Electronic mail
KW - ASR
KW - requirements
KW - specifications
KW - software engineering
KW - software architectures
KW - architecturally significant requirements
KW - nonfunctional requirements
KW - quality attributes
KW - grounded theory
KW - empirical study
VL - 30
JA - IEEE Software
ER -
 
Lianping Chen, University of Limerick and Paddy Power PLC
Muhammad Ali Babar, Lancaster University and IT University of Copenhagen
Bashar Nuseibeh, University of Limerick and The Open University
This article presents a framework for characterizing architecturally significant requirements (ASRs) on the basis of an empirical study using grounded theory. The study involved interviews with 90 practitioners with an accumulated 1,448 years of software development experiences in more than 500 organizations of various sizes and domains. These findings could provide researchers with a framework for discussing and conducting further research on ASRs and can inform researchers' development of technologies for dealing with ASRs. The findings also enrich understanding of requirements and architecture interactions, allowing the twin peaks to move from aspiration to reality.
Index Terms:
Software,Computer architecture,Software architecture,Organizations,Interviews,Electronic mail,ASR,requirements,specifications,software engineering,software architectures,architecturally significant requirements,nonfunctional requirements,quality attributes,grounded theory,empirical study
Citation:
Lianping Chen, Muhammad Ali Babar, Bashar Nuseibeh, "Characterizing Architecturally Significant Requirements," IEEE Software, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 38-45, March-April 2013, doi:10.1109/MS.2012.174
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