Traceability and Interfacing Between Requirements Engineering and UML Domains using the Standardized ReqIF Format

Arne Noyer, Padma Iyenghar, Elke Pulvermueller, Florian Pramme, Gert Bikker

2015

Abstract

Model Driven Development (MDD) is deemed as a key to address the increasing complexity of software systems. It is imperative that the developed software fulfills the end-user’s requirements. This implies that a collaboration between the Requirements Management (RM) tools and the modeling tools, enabling complete traceability and interfacing among these tools, is essential. On the other hand, existing tools collaborating between RM and modeling tools support a very limited sub-set of new features (e.g. traceability analysis) and are compatible with only a few tools. As a result, software engineers are often required to educate themselves on another (often complex), intermediate (collaborating) tool, merely to realize a very limited sub-set of supported features. This paper addresses these gaps and introduces an approach for exchanging information between RMtools and Unified Modeling Language (UML) tools by using the standardized Requirements Interchange Format (ReqIF). The proposed approach (a) enables software developers to create links between requirements and UML elements in their modeling tool and (b) facilitates requirements engineers to make traceability/other analyses down to linked model elements inside their RM tool. In contrast to many other approaches, no additional user interface is needed for traceability.

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Noyer A., Iyenghar P., Pulvermueller E., Pramme F. and Bikker G. (2015). Traceability and Interfacing Between Requirements Engineering and UML Domains using the Standardized ReqIF Format . In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development - Volume 1: MODELSWARD, ISBN 978-989-758-083-3, pages 370-375. DOI: 10.5220/0005327303700375


in Bibtex Style

@conference{modelsward15,
author={Arne Noyer and Padma Iyenghar and Elke Pulvermueller and Florian Pramme and Gert Bikker},
title={Traceability and Interfacing Between Requirements Engineering and UML Domains using the Standardized ReqIF Format},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development - Volume 1: MODELSWARD,},
year={2015},
pages={370-375},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005327303700375},
isbn={978-989-758-083-3},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development - Volume 1: MODELSWARD,
TI - Traceability and Interfacing Between Requirements Engineering and UML Domains using the Standardized ReqIF Format
SN - 978-989-758-083-3
AU - Noyer A.
AU - Iyenghar P.
AU - Pulvermueller E.
AU - Pramme F.
AU - Bikker G.
PY - 2015
SP - 370
EP - 375
DO - 10.5220/0005327303700375