Fifth International Conference on Quality Software (QSIC'05)
Modeling Software Characteristics and Their Correlations in A Specific Domain by Comparing Existing Similar Systems
Melbourne, Australia
September 19-September 20
ISBN: 0-7695-2472-9
Akira Osada, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Shinshu University, Japan
Daigo Ozawa, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Shinshu University, Japan
Haruhiko Kaiya, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Shinshu University, Japan
Kenji Kaijiri, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Shinshu University, Japan
Software in a specific domain has several characteristics and each characteristic should be fixed when the software requirements are specified. In addition, these characteristics sometimes correlate with each other. However, we sometimes forget to specify several characteristics and/or to take their correlations into account during requirements elicitation. In this paper, we propose a meta-model for representing such characteristics and their correlations, and also propose a method to build a model for a specific domain by using documents about existing software systems. By using our model for a domain, a requirements specifi- cation for a system in the domain could be complete and unambiguous because requirements analysts can check the characteristics that should be decided. The specification could be also correct and consistent because the analysts can know side effects of a requirement change by using correlation among the characteristics. We have applied our methods to a case study for confirming the usefulness of such model and the methods.
Index Terms:
Requirements Engineering,Requirements elicitation, Domain Modeling.
Citation:
Akira Osada, Daigo Ozawa, Haruhiko Kaiya, Kenji Kaijiri, "Modeling Software Characteristics and Their Correlations in A Specific Domain by Comparing Existing Similar Systems," qsic, pp.215-222, Fifth International Conference on Quality Software (QSIC'05), 2005