Development of requirements pattern repository: towards supporting requirements reuse

Requirements Engineering (RE) covers the study of techniques to define users’ needs by generating quality requirements. Nonetheless, RE tasks require a considerable amount of effort and resources due to various issues and challenging aspects. A crucial RE concern is how to effectively perform the RE...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Nordin, Azlin, Rusmi, Ahmad Afiq, Suhaizad, Farah Nur Atiqah, Burhanudin, Raida Rasyiqa, Kamis, Norazlina
Format:	Article
Language:	English English
Published:	American Scientific Publishers 2018
Subjects:	QA76 Computer software
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/63469/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/63469/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/63469/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/63469/1/63469_Development%20of%20requirements%20pattern%20repository_article.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/63469/7/63469_Development%20of%20requirements%20pattern%20repository_WOS.pdf

id	iium-63469
recordtype	eprints
spelling	iium-634692019-02-19T07:01:05Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/63469/ Development of requirements pattern repository: towards supporting requirements reuse Nordin, Azlin Rusmi, Ahmad Afiq Suhaizad, Farah Nur Atiqah Burhanudin, Raida Rasyiqa Kamis, Norazlina QA76 Computer software Requirements Engineering (RE) covers the study of techniques to define users’ needs by generating quality requirements. Nonetheless, RE tasks require a considerable amount of effort and resources due to various issues and challenging aspects. A crucial RE concern is how to effectively perform the RE tasks in order to reduce development cost. Amongst the recommended technique to achieve this, is through Requirements Reuse (RR) and one of the means to attain RR is by using requirements pattern. Reusability, in general can be viewed from for-reuse and with-reuse stages. The use of the requirements patterns could assist requirement engineers to create patterns for future reuse i.e. for-reuse and/or adapt in an environment i.e. with-reuse stage. Recent developments in RR have heightened the need for suitable environment to support these processes. In the current situation, without a requirements pattern repository, requirements engineers need to manually create, store, search, select and adapt the requirements patterns, which suit their needs. However, requirement engineers also need to be properly trained in order to make decision as to which pattern to choose, how the selection can best suit their needs and also what could be saved by using the pattern. Hence, the objectives of this work are to (1) create an environment that supports requirement engineers to create, adopt or adapt requirements patterns for-reuse and with-reuse processes; (2) support for-reuse process by creating requirements pattern repository; and (3) facilitate with-reuse process by allowing the requirements pattern adaptation from the existing patterns in the repository. In this work, we analyzed the literature on how requirements patterns are applied in both the stages and defined the required environment for the requirements pattern repository. In the end, we developed a requirements pattern repository based on generic domain and domain specific requirements patterns based on Collaborative Meeting and Appointment Scheduler Domain to demonstrate the proof-of-concept to allow the repository to be operational. American Scientific Publishers 2018-03-01 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/63469/1/63469_Development%20of%20requirements%20pattern%20repository_article.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/63469/7/63469_Development%20of%20requirements%20pattern%20repository_WOS.pdf Nordin, Azlin and Rusmi, Ahmad Afiq and Suhaizad, Farah Nur Atiqah and Burhanudin, Raida Rasyiqa and Kamis, Norazlina (2018) Development of requirements pattern repository: towards supporting requirements reuse. Advanced Science Letters, 24 (3). pp. 1847-1851. ISSN 1936-6612 http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/asp/asl/2018/00000024/00000003/art00068 10.1166/asl.2018.11174
repository_type	Digital Repository
institution_category	Local University
institution	International Islamic University Malaysia
building	IIUM Repository
collection	Online Access
language	English English
topic	QA76 Computer software
spellingShingle	QA76 Computer software Nordin, Azlin Rusmi, Ahmad Afiq Suhaizad, Farah Nur Atiqah Burhanudin, Raida Rasyiqa Kamis, Norazlina Development of requirements pattern repository: towards supporting requirements reuse
description	Requirements Engineering (RE) covers the study of techniques to define users’ needs by generating quality requirements. Nonetheless, RE tasks require a considerable amount of effort and resources due to various issues and challenging aspects. A crucial RE concern is how to effectively perform the RE tasks in order to reduce development cost. Amongst the recommended technique to achieve this, is through Requirements Reuse (RR) and one of the means to attain RR is by using requirements pattern. Reusability, in general can be viewed from for-reuse and with-reuse stages. The use of the requirements patterns could assist requirement engineers to create patterns for future reuse i.e. for-reuse and/or adapt in an environment i.e. with-reuse stage. Recent developments in RR have heightened the need for suitable environment to support these processes. In the current situation, without a requirements pattern repository, requirements engineers need to manually create, store, search, select and adapt the requirements patterns, which suit their needs. However, requirement engineers also need to be properly trained in order to make decision as to which pattern to choose, how the selection can best suit their needs and also what could be saved by using the pattern. Hence, the objectives of this work are to (1) create an environment that supports requirement engineers to create, adopt or adapt requirements patterns for-reuse and with-reuse processes; (2) support for-reuse process by creating requirements pattern repository; and (3) facilitate with-reuse process by allowing the requirements pattern adaptation from the existing patterns in the repository. In this work, we analyzed the literature on how requirements patterns are applied in both the stages and defined the required environment for the requirements pattern repository. In the end, we developed a requirements pattern repository based on generic domain and domain specific requirements patterns based on Collaborative Meeting and Appointment Scheduler Domain to demonstrate the proof-of-concept to allow the repository to be operational.
format	Article
author	Nordin, Azlin Rusmi, Ahmad Afiq Suhaizad, Farah Nur Atiqah Burhanudin, Raida Rasyiqa Kamis, Norazlina
author_facet	Nordin, Azlin Rusmi, Ahmad Afiq Suhaizad, Farah Nur Atiqah Burhanudin, Raida Rasyiqa Kamis, Norazlina
author_sort	Nordin, Azlin
title	Development of requirements pattern repository: towards supporting requirements reuse
title_short	Development of requirements pattern repository: towards supporting requirements reuse
title_full	Development of requirements pattern repository: towards supporting requirements reuse
title_fullStr	Development of requirements pattern repository: towards supporting requirements reuse
title_full_unstemmed	Development of requirements pattern repository: towards supporting requirements reuse
title_sort	development of requirements pattern repository: towards supporting requirements reuse
publisher	American Scientific Publishers
publishDate	2018
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/63469/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/63469/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/63469/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/63469/1/63469_Development%20of%20requirements%20pattern%20repository_article.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/63469/7/63469_Development%20of%20requirements%20pattern%20repository_WOS.pdf
first_indexed	2023-09-18T21:30:01Z
last_indexed	2023-09-18T21:30:01Z
_version_	1777412448168443904

Development of requirements pattern repository: towards supporting requirements reuse

Similar Items