A process for aspect-oriented quality requirements engineering: AOQuaRE

Abstract

The comprehension and correct specification of requirements increase with the complexity of present software systems, particularly if they have to respond to requirements going beyond the range of the main system functionality and that must be taken into account early during the development process. The Scientific community focuses now on the requirements engineering discipline, for the importance of nonfunctional or quality requirements with direct impact on the accomplishment of the main system's functionalities. This work models an aspect-oriented quality requirements engineering process (AOQuaRE), based on the treatment of non-functional requirements scattered and/or entangled among the functionalities of the system (crosscutting concerns), from the early steps of the development process. An important contribution of this work is the specification of quality requirements by the new standard ISO/IEC 25010 for software product quality.