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A Taxonomy of Asymmetric Requirements Aspects

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Early Aspects: Current Challenges and Future Directions (EAW 2007)

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The early aspects community has received increasing attention among researchers and practitioners, and has grown a set of meaningful terminology and concepts in recent years, including the notion of requirements aspects. Aspects at the requirements level present stakeholder concerns that crosscut the problem domain, with the potential for a broad impact on questions of scoping, prioritization, and architectural design. Although many existing requirements engineering approaches advocate and advertise an integral support of early aspects analysis, one challenge is that the notion of a requirements aspect is not yet well established to efficaciously serve the community. Instead of defining the term once and for all in a normally arduous and unproductive conceptual unification stage, we present a preliminary taxonomy based on the literature survey to show the different features of an asymmetric requirements aspect. Existing approaches that handle requirements aspects are compared and classified according to the proposed taxonomy. In addition, we study crosscutting security requirements to exemplify the taxonomy’s use, substantiate its value, and explore its future directions.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3G4, Canada

    Nan Niu & Steve Easterbrook

  2. Computing Department, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK

    Yijun Yu

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Niu, N., Easterbrook, S., Yu, Y. (2007). A Taxonomy of Asymmetric Requirements Aspects. In: Moreira, A., Grundy, J. (eds) Early Aspects: Current Challenges and Future Directions. EAW 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4765. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-76811-1_1

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