Requirements traceability in agent oriented development

  • Authors:

  • Jaelson Castro;Rosa Pinto;Andréa Castor;John Mylopoulos

  • Affiliations:

  • Centro de Informática, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil;Centro de Informática, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil;Centro de Informática, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil;Dept. of Computer Science University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

  • Venue:
  • Software engineering for large-scale multi-agent systems
  • Year:
  • 2003

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

Agent-oriented development is emerging as the software development paradigm of this new century. Indeed, software developers are using agents as a new metaphor for understanding, modeling, and implementing software that operates in dynamic, open, and often unpredictable environments. The growth of interest in software agents has led to the development of new methodologies based on agent concepts. However, requirements traceability has been recognized as an important prerequisite for developing and maintaining high quality software. It is intended to ensure continued alignment between stakeholder requirements and various outputs of the system development process. In this paper we present a general traceability framework, which can be used during agent-oriented development. We also sketch an approach to enhance the Tropos methodology to support traceability. An e-commerce case study is used to demonstrate the applicability of the approach.