Pub Date : 2011-10-17DOI: 10.1109/MARK.2011.6046555
O. Daramola, T. Stålhane, G. Sindre, Inah Omoronyia
The capability to identify potential system hazards and operability problems, and to recommend appropriate mitigation mechanisms is vital to the development of safety critical embedded systems. Hazard and Operability (HAZOP) analysis which is mostly used to achieve these objectives is a complex and largely human-centred process, and increased tool support could reduce costs and improve quality. This work presents a framework and tool prototype that facilitates the early identification of potential system hazards from requirements and the reuse of previous experience for conducting HAZOP. The results from the preliminary evaluation of the tool suggest its potential viability for application in real industrial context.
{"title":"Enabling hazard identification from requirements and reuse-oriented HAZOP analysis","authors":"O. Daramola, T. Stålhane, G. Sindre, Inah Omoronyia","doi":"10.1109/MARK.2011.6046555","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MARK.2011.6046555","url":null,"abstract":"The capability to identify potential system hazards and operability problems, and to recommend appropriate mitigation mechanisms is vital to the development of safety critical embedded systems. Hazard and Operability (HAZOP) analysis which is mostly used to achieve these objectives is a complex and largely human-centred process, and increased tool support could reduce costs and improve quality. This work presents a framework and tool prototype that facilitates the early identification of potential system hazards from requirements and the reuse of previous experience for conducting HAZOP. The results from the preliminary evaluation of the tool suggest its potential viability for application in real industrial context.","PeriodicalId":300336,"journal":{"name":"2011 4th International Workshop on Managing Requirements Knowledge","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131760439","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2011-10-17DOI: 10.1109/MARK.2011.6046557
T. Merten, Daniela Jüppner, Alexander Delater
The representation of traceability links in requirements knowledge is vital to improve the general understanding of requirements as well as the relevance and consequences of relations between requirements artifacts and other artifacts in software engineering. Various visualization techniques have been developed to support the representation of traceability information, e.g. traceability matrices, graphs and tree structures. However, these techniques do not scale well on large amounts of artifacts and often do not provide additional functionality to present supplementary data. In this paper, we use Sunburst and Netmap visualizations as alternative visualization techniques. These techniques perform well even on large amounts of artifacts and traceability links. Moreover, they provide the ability to present derivative data. An implementation of the visualizations was developed in conjunction with a requirements plugin for the Redmine project management platform. In this paper, the applicability of Sunburst and Netmap visualizations for requirements engineering knowledge is illustrated by applying it to an example project and the results are compared to traditional visualization techniques.
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Pub Date : 2011-10-17DOI: 10.1109/MARK.2011.6046560
Sanjay Ghosh, Alpana Dubey, S. Ramaswamy
Requirements management for globally managed large scale projects is a complex task, primarily due to the involvement of several stakeholders, multiple technologies, enormous information, and frequently changing business needs. Managing requirements communicated through mediums such as emails, chat messages, etc. is difficult due the lack of explicit context and the extensive use of unstructured information. This paper describes a requirements management framework, C-FaRM, which helps in managing requirements knowledge from multiple types of requirements artifacts. The framework makes use of custom ontology based recommender system that helps in prioritization, visualization, and negotiation of requirements.
{"title":"C-FaRM: A collaborative and context aware framework for requirements management","authors":"Sanjay Ghosh, Alpana Dubey, S. Ramaswamy","doi":"10.1109/MARK.2011.6046560","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MARK.2011.6046560","url":null,"abstract":"Requirements management for globally managed large scale projects is a complex task, primarily due to the involvement of several stakeholders, multiple technologies, enormous information, and frequently changing business needs. Managing requirements communicated through mediums such as emails, chat messages, etc. is difficult due the lack of explicit context and the extensive use of unstructured information. This paper describes a requirements management framework, C-FaRM, which helps in managing requirements knowledge from multiple types of requirements artifacts. The framework makes use of custom ontology based recommender system that helps in prioritization, visualization, and negotiation of requirements.","PeriodicalId":300336,"journal":{"name":"2011 4th International Workshop on Managing Requirements Knowledge","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125834662","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2011-10-17DOI: 10.1109/MARK.2011.6046558
Nirav Ajmeri, K. Vidhani, Manoj Bhat, S. Ghaisas
The complexity associated with understanding the cross-domain scope of a requirement has always been a challenge. Requirement Analysts use their experience in determining the functional scope boundaries of requirements. However, chances of missing out key concepts in domains peripheral to the domain of interest are quite high. Ontologies are increasingly becoming the standard way of representing shared understanding of a domain and their use in understanding and visualizing the cross-domain scope of requirements can be a step towards improving the completeness of requirements. We present a method - based on ontology mapping technique, and an assisting tool that would help Requirement Analysts visualize - how requirements span across multiple domains.
{"title":"An Ontology-based method and tool for cross-domain requirements visualization","authors":"Nirav Ajmeri, K. Vidhani, Manoj Bhat, S. Ghaisas","doi":"10.1109/MARK.2011.6046558","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MARK.2011.6046558","url":null,"abstract":"The complexity associated with understanding the cross-domain scope of a requirement has always been a challenge. Requirement Analysts use their experience in determining the functional scope boundaries of requirements. However, chances of missing out key concepts in domains peripheral to the domain of interest are quite high. Ontologies are increasingly becoming the standard way of representing shared understanding of a domain and their use in understanding and visualizing the cross-domain scope of requirements can be a step towards improving the completeness of requirements. We present a method - based on ontology mapping technique, and an assisting tool that would help Requirement Analysts visualize - how requirements span across multiple domains.","PeriodicalId":300336,"journal":{"name":"2011 4th International Workshop on Managing Requirements Knowledge","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124487534","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2011-10-17DOI: 10.1109/MARK.2011.6046559
Nitesh Narayan, B. Brügge, Alexander Delater, B. Paech
Model-based CASE tools provide mechanisms to capture and store heterogeneous artifacts produced during the software development process. These tools incorporate a meta-model describing artifact types and traceability links. Although model-based CASE tools provide required means to create and link different artifact types, still the process of linking artifacts is primarily manual resulting in missing or broken traceability links. This paper proposes a novel approach to create and utilize a project-specific ontology derived from the textual and structural information available in the development artifacts to assist the traceability link creation process. We discuss the benefits and challenges of incorporating the proposed approach in a model-based CASE tool.
{"title":"Enhanced traceability in model-based CASE tools using ontologies and information retrieval","authors":"Nitesh Narayan, B. Brügge, Alexander Delater, B. Paech","doi":"10.1109/MARK.2011.6046559","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MARK.2011.6046559","url":null,"abstract":"Model-based CASE tools provide mechanisms to capture and store heterogeneous artifacts produced during the software development process. These tools incorporate a meta-model describing artifact types and traceability links. Although model-based CASE tools provide required means to create and link different artifact types, still the process of linking artifacts is primarily manual resulting in missing or broken traceability links. This paper proposes a novel approach to create and utilize a project-specific ontology derived from the textual and structural information available in the development artifacts to assist the traceability link creation process. We discuss the benefits and challenges of incorporating the proposed approach in a model-based CASE tool.","PeriodicalId":300336,"journal":{"name":"2011 4th International Workshop on Managing Requirements Knowledge","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122037255","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2011-10-17DOI: 10.1109/MARK.2011.6046554
Peter Jones
Early in 2009, faced with the start of a complex systems development the Systems Engineering team at Phonak decided to procure a requirements management tool. This experience report describes our tool selection process and provides insights both to those selecting tools and to vendors offering tools to the market.
{"title":"Can requirements tool vendors tell us about User Needs?","authors":"Peter Jones","doi":"10.1109/MARK.2011.6046554","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MARK.2011.6046554","url":null,"abstract":"Early in 2009, faced with the start of a complex systems development the Systems Engineering team at Phonak decided to procure a requirements management tool. This experience report describes our tool selection process and provides insights both to those selecting tools and to vendors offering tools to the market.","PeriodicalId":300336,"journal":{"name":"2011 4th International Workshop on Managing Requirements Knowledge","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129756645","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2011-10-17DOI: 10.1109/MARK.2011.6046556
Richa Sharma, K. K. Biswas
The growing complexity and size of software systems emphasize the need for capturing the requirements in a way that is amenable to requirements validation and facilitates requirements management and evolution. Knowledge Representation techniques have widely been used for representing the requirements, each with varying degree of success. In this paper we present courteous logic based representations for specifying the requirements. We explain how courteous logic can be used to represent the requirements, resolve inconsistencies, incompleteness, ambiguities and presuppositions in elicited requirements and present solution to requirements management and evolution problem.
{"title":"Using courteous logic based representations for requirements specification","authors":"Richa Sharma, K. K. Biswas","doi":"10.1109/MARK.2011.6046556","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MARK.2011.6046556","url":null,"abstract":"The growing complexity and size of software systems emphasize the need for capturing the requirements in a way that is amenable to requirements validation and facilitates requirements management and evolution. Knowledge Representation techniques have widely been used for representing the requirements, each with varying degree of success. In this paper we present courteous logic based representations for specifying the requirements. We explain how courteous logic can be used to represent the requirements, resolve inconsistencies, incompleteness, ambiguities and presuppositions in elicited requirements and present solution to requirements management and evolution problem.","PeriodicalId":300336,"journal":{"name":"2011 4th International Workshop on Managing Requirements Knowledge","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130394854","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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