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Software requirements patterns and meta model: a strategy for enhancing Requirements Reuse (RR)

Imam Yau'u, Badamasi and Nordin, Azlin and Salleh, Norsaremah (2016) Software requirements patterns and meta model: a strategy for enhancing Requirements Reuse (RR). In: 6th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for the Muslim World (ICT4M 2016), 22nd-24th November 2016, Jakarta, Indonesia.

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Abstract

Reuse is a fundamental activity in software development lifecycle, which can be employed at any stage of development. Reuse of software artefacts, such as requirements, architectures, models, test cases among others, improves software quality and productivity. Because of its higher level of abstraction, requirements reuse (RR) is recognized as reuse approach that can provide more benefits in software development. A number of RR approaches are reported in the literature. These include domain-specific, pattern-based, ontology-based and general approaches. However, these approaches lack a strategy that could incorporate some key aspects of reuse, which are, reusable structure, variability modeling (VM) and traceability of software artefacts. In line with this, we make our contribution in this paper by (1) presenting the concepts and importance of software requirements patterns (SRP) and meta model for the enhancement of RR; (2) proposing a meta modeling strategy based on software product line engineering (SPLE), which comprises SRP, VM and traceability. We believe our proposal is novel and can support developers in SPL and model-driven engineering (MDE) benefit more from reuse in the course of software developments.

Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Plenary Papers)
Additional Information: 5133/53487
Uncontrolled Keywords: Requirements reuse (RR); software requirements patterns (SRP); meta model; variability modeling (VM); traceability.
Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA76 Computer software
Kulliyyahs/Centres/Divisions/Institutes (Can select more than one option. Press CONTROL button): Kulliyyah of Information and Communication Technology > Department of Computer Science
Kulliyyah of Information and Communication Technology > Department of Computer Science
Depositing User: Azlin Nordin
Date Deposited: 03 Feb 2017 11:06
Last Modified: 10 Mar 2017 09:38
URI: http://irep.iium.edu.my/id/eprint/53487

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