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Phase 3 : Requirements Engineering Methodologies and Tools (April 2002 - present )

  1. Critical Assessment of Present-Day Systems Engineering Tools (e.g., DOORS and SLATE). How do we capture and represent knowledge through requirements engineering activities?

    Figure: Requirements Engineering Work Breakdown Structure (WBS).

    Figure: Requirements Engineering WBS and Industry Toolset Weakensses. (For details, see Ramesh and Jarke, 2001)

  2. Transfer of Semantic Web Technologies to Tools for Requirments Engineering:

    What is the Minumum Level of Semantic Web Technology that can mitigate (and hopefully overcome) limitations in present-day tools?

    Figure: Requirements Engineering WBS (Create Branch) to Semantic Layer Cake (Selberg, 2002).

    Figure: Requirements Engineering WBS (Use Branch) to Semantic Layer Cake (Selberg, 2002).

References

  1. Ramesh B., and Jarke M., "Toward Reference Models for Requirements Traceability," IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 27., No. 1., January 2001, pp. 58-93.
  2. Selberg S., "Requirements Engineering and the Semantic Web," M.S. Thesis, Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, April 2002.

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