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Quality Improvement by enhancing Informal Requirements with Design Thinking Methods

  • Kim, Janghwan;Kim, R. Young Chul
    • International journal of advanced smart convergence
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.130-137
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    • 2021
  • In the current software project, it is still very difficult to extract and define clear requirements in the requirement engineering. Informal requirements documents based on natural language can be interpreted in different meanings depending on the degree of understanding or maturity level of the requirements analyst. Also, Furthermore, as the project progresses, requirements continue to change from the customer. This change in requirements is a catastrophic failure from a management perspective in software projects. In the situation of frequent requirements changes, a current issue of requirements engineering area is how to make clear requirements with unclear and ambigousrequirements. To solve this problem, we propose to extract and redefine clear requirements by incorporating Design Thinking methodologies into requirements engineering. We expect to have higher possibilities to improve software quality by redefining requirements that are ambiously and unclearly defined.

Design and Implementation of Web-based Software Requirements Negotiation System (웹기반 소프트웨어 요구 조정 시스템의 설계 및 구현)

  • Gwon, Gi-Tae
    • The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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    • v.6 no.11S
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    • pp.3299-3308
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    • 1999
  • One of the most important prerequisites for a successful software process is the collaboration and software requirements negotiation of all stakeholders in the software development process. Remote users using computer networks can negotiate software requirements by computer supported system, and can share their informations. The goal of software requirements negotiation system is an integration of all win conditions and an agreement after resolution of conflicts. The existing systems need an exclusive system and must be dependent on specific platform and network. Users must have the knowledge of all stakeholder's status and use homogeneous collaborating applications. This paper presents the Web-based software requirements negotiation system for the purpose of resolution of the existing systems' problems. The Web-based software requirements negotiation system can be driven by WinWin Spiral model, and it is based on hybrid execution method. The proposed system is validated and tested on heterogeneous environments.

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Design Requirements in Software and Engineering Systems

  • Eleiche, A.M.;Ahmad, I.;Elish, M.O.
    • Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.70-81
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    • 2012
  • The subject of "Design Requirements" (DR) is central to the design of software and engineering systems. The main reason for this is that quality aspects are usually closely tied to requirements, among other things. In this review paper, we consider how the subject of requirements is being managed in these two seemingly different design disciplines. Two important aspects are covered, namely: (a) requirements development, describing various activities leading to requirements documentation, and (b) requirements change management, describing various activities needed for the proper treatment of the inevitable changes in requirements. Similarities and differences on how these two aspects are handled in software and engineering systems are highlighted. It is concluded from this literature survey that the management of software requirements is quite coherent and well established as a science. On the other hand, management of engineering systems requirements suffer from being unstructured, in particular when requirements changes are involved. Important gaps and future important research areas are identified.

An Approach to Managing Requirements Change Systematically in Software Product Lines (소프트웨어 프로덕트 라인에서 체계적인 요구사항 변경 관리 방법)

  • Park, Ji-Hyeon;Moon, Mi-Kyeong;Yeom, Keun-Hyuk
    • Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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    • v.32 no.12
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    • pp.1164-1177
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    • 2005
  • As the software development process becomes complicated, software requirements become complicated, too. Many efforts are needed in requirements management. It is impossible to define all requirements of software at first, and the development environment changes as project is gone. As the cost of requirements change management is much more than development cost, the changes should be controled immediately through systematic change management. In this paper, I suggest a method to manage requirements change systematically based on the change management process in software product lines. The requirements change at the application engineering process is analyzed and managed using the domain engineering process because the application requirements are customized from the domain requirements in software product lines. Such the consistent change management helps to make decisions about changes by change impact analysis and alternative solution design. Through this method, the potential change costs can be saved because same change requests are not repeated by controlling the change requests completely.

Addressing User Requirements in Open Source Software: The Role of Online Forums

  • Raza, Arif;Capretz, Luiz Fernando
    • Journal of Computing Science and Engineering
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.57-63
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    • 2014
  • User satisfaction has always been important in the success of software, regardless of whether it is closed and proprietary or open source software (OSS). OSS users are geographically distributed and include technical as well as novice users. However, it is generally believed that if OSS was more usable, its popularity would increase tremendously. Hence, users and their requirements need to be addressed in the priorities of an OSS environment. Online public forums are a major medium of communication for the OSS community. The research model of this work studies the relationship between user requirements in open source software and online public forums. To conduct this research, we used a dataset consisting of 100 open source software projects in different categories. The results show that online forums play a significant role in identifying user requirements and addressing their requests in open source software.

A DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK FOR SOFTWARE SECURITY IN NUCLEAR SAFETY SYSTEMS: INTEGRATING SECURE DEVELOPMENT AND SYSTEM SECURITY ACTIVITIES

  • Park, Jaekwan;Suh, Yongsuk
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.46 no.1
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    • pp.47-54
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    • 2014
  • The protection of nuclear safety software is essential in that a failure can result in significant economic loss and physical damage to the public. However, software security has often been ignored in nuclear safety software development. To enforce security considerations, nuclear regulator commission recently issued and revised the security regulations for nuclear computer-based systems. It is a great challenge for nuclear developers to comply with the security requirements. However, there is still no clear software development process regarding security activities. This paper proposes an integrated development process suitable for the secure development requirements and system security requirements described by various regulatory bodies. It provides a three-stage framework with eight security activities as the software development process. Detailed descriptions are useful for software developers and licensees to understand the regulatory requirements and to establish a detailed activity plan for software design and engineering.

A Software Development Process Supporting Non-Functional Requirements (비기능적 요구사항을 지원하는 소프트웨어 개발 프로세스)

  • Jung, Hyo-Taeg;Joo, Sang-Hyun
    • Journal of The Institute of Information and Telecommunication Facilities Engineering
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.13-18
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    • 2010
  • As the importance of non-functional requirements has increased, many researchers have become interested in the software development process for non-functional requirements including the notation, modeling, and assessment of non-functional requirements. However, the characteristics of non-functional requirements are so sophisticated and there are many topics which have not been solved until now. In order to address one of the unsolved problems, we propose a systematic software development process to support the management of non-functional requirements. The process consists of six steps, each of which is composed of detailed activities. Using the proposed process, the non-functional requirements can be managed and modeled more effectively and systematically than previous ones.

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Current issues on Requirement Traceability Mechanism for Software Organization of the 4th Industrial Revolution

  • Kim, Janghwan;Kim, R. Young Chul
    • International journal of advanced smart convergence
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    • v.9 no.4
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    • pp.167-172
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    • 2020
  • In the 4th industrial revolution, there are many projects for diverse software applications of smart city environments. Most of the stakeholders focus on considering software quality for their developed software. Nobody doesn't guarantee requirement satisfaction after complete development. At this time, we can only work on user acceptance testing for requirement satisfaction on frequently changing requirements. Why keeps the requirement traceability? This traceability is to identify risks related to requirements, to assure correct software development based on customer requirements. To solve this, we are researching how to implement requirement traceability across each artifact's relationship to each activity of a whole development lifecycle.

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)

  • Lee, Jun-Ki;Cho, Hae-Kyung;Ko, In-Young
    • Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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    • v.35 no.6
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    • pp.357-365
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    • 2008
  • 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.

Software Design and Verification Method of Flight Data Recorder for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (무인항공기용 비행자료 기록장치 소프트웨어 설계 및 검증 방안)

  • Yang, Seo-hee
    • Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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    • v.24 no.3
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    • pp.163-172
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    • 2020
  • Flight data recorder (FDR) for accident investigation is required to comply with EUROCAE(ED-112) standard so that flight data can be restored when exposed to extreme conditions due to aircraft crash. Since the ED-112 standard defines the general requirements for all aircraft, it is essential to analyze detailed requirements for FDR software to apply appropriate requirements selectively according to the configuration and operation concept of a specific aircraft. In this paper, the software requirements applicable to unmanned aircraft will be analyzed and the FDR software design will be proposed. Also, a software verification method for each requirement will be presented to verify that the implemented software is designed to satisfy all requirements.