From Stakeholder Requirements to Formal Specifications Through Refinement

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• 作者：Feng-Lin Li (15)
  Jennifer Horkoff (16)
  Alexander Borgida (17)
  Giancarlo Guizzardi (18)
  Lin Liu (19)
  John Mylopoulos (15)
  
  15. Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science ; University of Trento ; Trento ; Italy
  16. Centre for Human Computer Interaction Design ; City University ; London ; UK
  17. Department of Computer Science ; Rutgers University ; New Brunswick ; USA
  18. Computer Science Department ; Federal University of Esp铆rito Santo ; Vit贸ria ; Brazil
  19. School of Software ; Tsinghua University ; Beijing ; China
  
• 关键词：Requirements modeling language ; Functional requirements ; Non ; functional requirements ; Ontologies
• 刊名：Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：9013
• 期：1
• 页码：164-180
• 全文大小：393 KB
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• 作者单位：Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality
• 丛书名：978-3-319-16100-6
• 刊物类别：Computer Science
• 刊物主题：Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
  Computer Communication Networks
  Software Engineering
  Data Encryption
  Database Management
  Computation by Abstract Devices
  Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity
  
• 出版者：Springer Berlin / Heidelberg
• ISSN：1611-3349

文摘

[Context and motivation] Stakeholder requirements are notoriously informal, vague, ambiguous and often unattainable. The requirements engineering problem is to formalize these requirements and then transform them through a systematic process into a formal specification that can be handed over to designers for downstream development. [Question/problem] This paper proposes a framework for transforming informal requirements to formal ones, and then to a specification. [Principal ideas/results] The framework consists of an ontology of requirements, a formal requirements modeling language for representing both functional and non-functional requirements, as well as a rich set of refinement operators whereby requirements are incrementally transformed into a formal, practically satisfiable and measurable specification. [Contributions] Our proposal includes a systematic, tool-supported methodology for conducting this transformation. For evaluation, we have applied our framework to a public requirements dataset. The results of our evaluation suggest that our ontology and modeling language are adequate for capturing requirements, and our methodology is effective in handling requirements in practice.