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This paper presents the quality requirements analysis (\(\mathcal{QRA}\)) approach to requirements modeling. The \(\mathcal{QRA}\) approach supports functional and non-functional requirements modeling in three dimensions: First, it extends functional goal modeling with non-functional goals. Second, it injects QR (quality requirement) specification into business process models. Third, it provides a set of rules for elaborating and refining QRs alongside functional decomposition of business processes. This paper describes \(\mathcal{QRA}\)’s conceptual foundations and illustrates them through goals and business processes of a real world stock trading system.
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Sun, J., Loucopoulos, P., Zhao, L. (2013). Representing and Elaborating Quality Requirements: The QRA Approach. In: Ng, W., Storey, V.C., Trujillo, J.C. (eds) Conceptual Modeling. ER 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8217. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41924-9_37
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