Modeling requirements for model-driven engineering of large software solutions needing a modular approach

Abstract

This paper accompanies a poster submission for the Modularity 2015 conference. The results described in the poster and this overview paper are the accumulation from six years of industry project experience. The projects were multi-year in length with development team sizes of 10 – 20 people, plus the customers. The long project times necessitated the modular structuring of the solution to enable the delivery of partial value as soon as possible. The modular structuring began at the requirements level. The poster lists a brief summary, some of the research questions, the process approaches used and some of the modeling artifacts found useful. There is still work to be done to convert the informal results to a more formal basis in terms of meta-models and cognitive effectiveness.