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AUTOMATED SUPPORT FOR MANAGING SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Author(s) -
Kovarik Vincent J.,
McGhan James N.,
Myjak Annette R.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
incose international symposium
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-5837
DOI - 10.1002/j.2334-5837.1993.tb01599.x
Subject(s) - computer science , system requirements specification , traceability , requirements traceability , software requirements specification , requirements analysis , software engineering , tracing , requirement , representation (politics) , requirements management , user requirements document , iterative and incremental development , system requirements , database , software development , software , software design , programming language , politics , political science , law , operating system
The development of requirements for large systems is a complex and iterative process. Adequately maintaining a requirements set for large systems with multiple configuration items quickly becomes an intractable problem. This paper presents an approach which applies object‐oriented modeling techniques to represent the interrelationships between requirements and provide traceability to subsequent, related development products. The ability to automatically compute transitive closures over user‐defined relationships provides a powerful yet simple mechanism for tracing the impact of a requirement change to potentially affected components. This model of requirements relationships is complemented by the ability to model the content and structure of specification documents. By applying the representation of the document structure, coupled with a database query capability, the system can generate a System Segment Specification, Software Requirement Specification, and a Software Design Document based on the contents of the model.