Cloud adoption: a goal-oriented requirements engineering approach

  • Authors:
  • Shehnila Zardari;Rami Bahsoon

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom;University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Software Engineering for Cloud Computing
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

We motivate the need for a new requirements engineering methodology for systematically helping businesses and users to adopt cloud services and for mitigating risks in such transition. The methodology is grounded in goal oriented approaches for requirements engineering. We argue that Goal Oriented Requirements Engineering (GORE) is a promising paradigm to adopt for goals that are generic and flexible statements of users' requirements, which could be refined, elaborated, negotiated, mitigated for risks and analysed for economics considerations. We describe the steps of the proposed process and exemplify the use of the methodology through an example. The methodology can be used by small to large scale organisations to inform crucial decisions related to cloud adoption.