Meta-modeling constructs for requirements reuse (RR): software requirements patterns, variability, and traceability

Imam Yau'u, Badamasi and Nordin, Azlin and Salleh, Norsaremah (2018) Meta-modeling constructs for requirements reuse (RR): software requirements patterns, variability, and traceability. Malaysian Journal of Computing, 3 (2). pp. 119-137. ISSN 2231-7473 E-ISSN 2600-8238

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Abstract

Reuse is a fundamental activity, which increases quality and productivity of software products. Reuse of software artifacts, such as requirements, architectures, and codes can be employed at any developmental stage of software. However, reuse at a higher level of abstraction, for instance at requirements level, provides greater benefits in software development than when applied at lower level of abstraction for example at coding level. To achieve full benefits of reuse, a systematic approach and appropriate strategy need to be followed. Although several reuse approaches are reported in the literature, these approaches lack a key strategy to synergize some essential drivers of reuse, which include reusable structure, variability management (VM) and traceability of software artifacts. In line with this, we make our contribution in this paper by (1) presenting the concepts and importance of software requirements patterns (SRP) for reusable structure; (2) proposing a strategy, which combines three sub-disciplines of Software Engineering (SE) such as Requirements Engineering (RE), Software Product Line Engineering (SPLE) and Model-driven Engineering (MDE); (3) proposing a meta-modeling constructs, which include SRP, VM and traceability and; (4) Relationship amongst the three sub-disciplines of the SE. This is a novel approach and we believe it can support and guide researchers and practitioners in SE community to have greater benefits of reuse during software developments.

Item Type:	Article (Journal)
Additional Information:	5133/68996
Uncontrolled Keywords:	meta-model, Requirements reuse (RR), software requirements patterns (SRP), traceability, variability modeling (VM)
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 Kulliyyah of Information and Communication Technology 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:	09 Jan 2019 09:10
Last Modified:	10 Jul 2019 12:48
URI:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/id/eprint/68996

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