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Intertwining Relationship Between Requirements, Architecture, and Domain Knowledge

Authors:
Azadeh Alebrahim
Maritta Heisel

Keywords: quality requirements; requirements engineering; domain knowledge; design decisions; software architecture

Abstract:
In requirements engineering, properties of the environment and assumptions about it, called domain knowledge, need to be captured in addition to exploring the requirements. Despite the recognition of the significance of capturing the required domain knowledge, domain knowledge might be missing, left implicit, or be captured inadequately during the software development process, causing incorrect specifications and software failure. Domain knowledge affects the elicitation and evolution of requirements, the evolution of software architectures, and related design decisions. Conversely, requirements and design decisions affect the elicitation and modification of domain knowledge. In this paper, we propose the iterative capturing and co-developing of domain knowledge with requirements and software architectures. We explicitly discuss the effects of requirements and design decisions on domain knowledge and illustrate this relationship with examples drawn from our research, where we had to go back and forth between requirements, domain knowledge, and design decisions.

Pages: 1 to 7

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2014

Publication date: October 12, 2014

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4235

ISBN: 978-1-61208-367-4

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from October 12, 2014 to October 16, 2014