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A Method for Requirements Traceability for Reuse of Artifacts using Requirements-Ontology-based Semantic Tagging

요구사항 온톨로지 기반의 시맨틱 태깅을 활용한 산출물의 재사용성 지원을 위한 요구사항추적 방법

  • 이준기 (한국정보통신대학교 공학부) ;
  • 조혜경 (한국정보통신대학교 공학부) ;
  • 고인영 (한국정보통신대학교 공학부)
  • Published : 2008.06.15
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Abstract

Requirements traceability enables to reuse various kinds of software artifacts, which are the results from software development life cycle, rather than reuse source code only. To support requirements traceability for reuse of software artifacts, 1) artifacts should be described based on requirements and 2) a requirements tracing method should be supported. In this paper, we provide a description model for annotating requirements information to software artifacts by using requirements ontology. We also provide semantic tagging method users to efficiently annotate artifacts with the requirements ontology. And we finally present how requirements traceability is supported based on requirements ontology and also suggest the system architecture for requirements traceability support.

산출물들의 추적 관계 정의를 이용한 요구사항 추적을 통해, 기존의 컴포넌트 자체의 재사용뿐만 아니라 컴포넌트 개발과정에서 나오는 다양한 산출물들을 요구사항 기반으로 재사용할 수 있다. 이러한 재사용성 증가를 목적으로 하는 요구사항추적을 지원하기 위해서는 산출물들이 요구사항을 기반으로 표현될 수 있어야 하고, 표현된 요구사항을 기반으로 하여 추적관계를 추론하는 메커니즘이 제공되어야 한다. 이를 위해, 본 논문에서는 시맨틱스 기반의 요구사항추적을 지원하기 위해서 요구사항 온톨로지를 하여 기술한다. 그 다음에 산출물들이 요구사항 온톨로지를 통해서 시맨틱 태깅되는 기술을 기술한다. 본 논문은 이와 같이 요구사항 추적을 위한 메커니즘을 제안하고, 요구사항 온톨로지의 구조를 정의하며 프로토타입을 제시한다.

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