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A Process-Oriented Approach for the Optimal Satisficing of Non-Functional Requirements

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Trustworthy Software Development Processes (ICSP 2009)

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In an ever more competitive world, the need for software systems to meet specific quality characteristics becomes increasingly apparent. These quality characteristics, or non-functional requirements, are often contradictory and ambiguous, making them difficult to manage during software development processes. This paper presents a modification of the NFR framework that facilitates the automated discovery of optimal system designs for the satisfaction of non-functional requirements. Just as with the NFR framework, this method can be used at any stage during the software development process in order to aid design decisions. The proposed method introduces the capacity to incorporate both qualitative and quantitative non-functional requirements, as well as the potential to include various cost factors into the optimisation process.

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  1. School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Wollongong, Northfields Avenue, NSW, 2522, Australia

    Christopher Burgess & Aneesh Krishna

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  1. Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No.4 South Fourth Street, Zhong Guan Cun, 100190, Beijing, China

    Qing Wang

  2. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive N.W., Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada

    Vahid Garousi

  3. Department of Systems Engineering, Naval Postgraduate School, Bullard Hall, Room 201J, 777 Dyer Road, CA 93943, Monterey, USA

    Raymond Madachy

  4. Simula Research Laboratory, P.O.Box 134, 1325, Lysaker, Norway

    Dietmar Pfahl

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Burgess, C., Krishna, A. (2009). A Process-Oriented Approach for the Optimal Satisficing of Non-Functional Requirements. In: Wang, Q., Garousi, V., Madachy, R., Pfahl, D. (eds) Trustworthy Software Development Processes. ICSP 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5543. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01680-6_27

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