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Extending the User Requirements Notation with Aspect-Oriented Concepts

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SDL 2009: Design for Motes and Mobiles (SDL 2009)

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In November 2008, the User Requirements Notation (URN) was approved as Recommendation Z.151 by the Standardization Sector of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU-T). URN is the first and currently only standard that supports both goal-oriented and scenario-based modeling for requirements engineering activities. The Aspect-oriented URN (AoURN) is a recent extension of URN that combines goals, scenarios, and aspects in one framework. AoURN is a candidate for future versions of the URN standard. We first summarize the basic concepts and notation of AoURN and then discuss advanced features of AoURN that are necessary for large-scale modeling. Based on our experience with AoURN modeling, we present a list of requirements including rationale for an aspect-oriented extension of Z.151 that succinctly expresses the required features to evolve URN into a complete aspect-oriented modeling framework.

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Mussbacher, G., Amyot, D. (2009). Extending the User Requirements Notation with Aspect-Oriented Concepts. In: Reed, R., Bilgic, A., Gotzhein, R. (eds) SDL 2009: Design for Motes and Mobiles. SDL 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5719. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04554-7_8

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