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Configuring features with stakeholder goals

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Julio Cesar Sampaio do Prado Leite,

Alexei Lapouchnian,

John MylopoulosAuthors Info & Claims

SAC '08: Proceedings of the 2008 ACM symposium on Applied computing

Pages 645 - 649

https://doi.org/10.1145/1363686.1363840

Published: 16 March 2008 Publication History

Abstract

Goal models are effective in capturing stakeholder needs at the time when features of the system-to-be have not yet been conceptualized. Relating goals to solution-oriented features gives rise to a requirement traceability problem. In this paper, we present a new model-driven extension to an Early Requirements Engineering tool (OpenOME) that generates an initial feature model of the system-to-be from stakeholder goals. Enabled by such generative mapping, configuration constraints among variability features can be obtained by reasoning about stakeholder goals.

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Index Terms

Configuring features with stakeholder goals
1. General and reference
  1. Cross-computing tools and techniques
    1. Validation
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Designing software
      1. Requirements analysis
    2. Software verification and validation
      1. Empirical software validation
      2. Process validation
        Traceability
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. Software configuration management and version control systems

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