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A tool suite for aspect-oriented requirements engineering

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Aspect-Oriented Requirements Engineering (AORE) supports identification of crosscutting, aspectual requirements as well as analysis of their influence on other requirements of the system. Identifying and analyzing aspectual requirements manually is very resource intensive due to their broadly scoped nature and the large volumes and ambiguity of input information from the stakeholders. In this paper we present a tool suite to support AORE in a scalable fashion. The tools support identification of aspectual requirements and their influences on other requirements, conflict detection and resolution between aspectual requirements, as well as requirements representation and requirements document structuring. A number of case studies, including two in an industrial setting, demonstrate the scalability and efficiency of the tool suite. They also show that its output is comparable to that of a requirements engineer carrying out the same tasks manually.

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EA '06: Proceedings of the 2006 international workshop on Early aspects at ICSE
May 2006
68 pages
ISBN:1595934057
DOI:10.1145/1137639
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  • Paul C. Clements
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  1. aspect-oriented requirements engineering
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  3. concern identification
  4. requirements analysis
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