Towards a Dynamic Model for Requirements Handling in Software Architecture Configuration Management

—Nowadays the role of software architecture is obvious. Both complex requirements and non-deterministic chang ing environments lead software architecture to face with problems for coverage of requirements and environments. Consequently, the configuration of the software architec ture is faced with challenges even in run-time. Being able to deal with such problems requires new techniques to be used. In spite of variety of related works performed in this domain, improvements are required in some aspects such as consideration of overlap and contradictory require ments and also effects in dynamic environments. In this paper, a dynamic model is presented for handling chang ing requirements which makes use of the configuration management concepts such as versioning, composition, consistency, construction, and selection; hence the possibility of configuring software architecture in overlapped and contradictory requirements and dynamic environ ments has been provided in the proposed model. The model includes change management and versioning activities for software architecture and its artefacts. The results of performing the proposed model on a case are reported in this paper.