How the web of things challenges requirements engineering

  • Authors:
  • Pete Sawyer;Animesh Pathak;Nelly Bencomo;Valérie Issarny

  • Affiliations:
  • Inria Paris-Rocquencourt, France;Inria Paris-Rocquencourt, France;Inria Paris-Rocquencourt, France;Inria Paris-Rocquencourt, France

  • Venue:
  • ICWE'12 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Current Trends in Web Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

As a subset of the Internet of Things (IoT), the Web of Things (WoT) shares many characteristics with wireless sensor and actuator networks (WSANs) and ubiquitous computing systems (Ubicomp). Yet to a far greater degree than the IoT, WSANs or Ubicomp, the WoT will integrate physical and information objects, necessitating a means to model and reason about a range of context types that have hitherto received little or no attention from the RE community. RE practice is only now developing the means to support WSANs and Ubicomp system development, including faltering first steps in the representation of context. We argue that these techniques will need to be developed further, with a particular focus on rich context types, if RE is to support WoT application development.