Elements underlying the specification of requirements

  • Authors:

  • Alan M. Davis;Kathleen Jordan;Tsuyoshi Nakajima

  • Affiliations:

  • University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, 1867 Austin Bluffs Parkway, Ste 200, Colorado Springs, CO 80933‐7150, USA E‐mail: adavis@vivaldi.uccs.edu;Institute for Defense Analyses, CSED, 1801 N. Beauregard St., Alexandria, VA 22311, USA E‐mail: kjordan@ida.org;Middleware Technology Department, Computer & Info. Systems Lab, Mitsubishi Electric Corp., 5–1–1 Ofuna, Kamakura‐city, Kanagawa 247, Japan E‐mail: nakajima@sy.is ...

  • Venue:
  • Annals of Software Engineering
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

As more and more complex computer‐based systems are built, it becomes increasingly more difficult to specify or visualize the system prior to its construction. One way of simplifying these tasks is to view the requirements from multiple viewpoints. However, if these viewpoints examine the requirements using different notations, how can we know if they are consistent? This paper describes the elemental concepts that underlie all requirements. By reducing each view of requirements to networks of these elemental concepts, it becomes possible to better understand the relationships among the views.