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Semantic decoupling: reducing the impact of requirement changes

Authors:

Israel Navarro , Nancy Leveson , Kristina Lundqvist

Note:

Accepted, not published yet. (as of Aug 2010)

Publication Type:

Journal article

Venue:

Requirements Engineering


Abstract

The continuous stream of requirements changes that often takes place during software development and can create major problems in the development process. This paper defines a concept we call semantic coupling that can be used during all the phases of a system specification and design to reduce the impact of changing requirements. Within the general framework of the intent specifications, traceability matrices representing the mappings between different abstraction levels are used to evaluate the sensitivity of a given design to requirement changes. The practicality of using the approach on real software is demonstrated using the specification of the control software for a NASA robot designed to service the heat-resistant tiles on the Space Shuttle.

Bibtex

@article{Navarro1908,
author = {Israel Navarro and Nancy Leveson and Kristina Lundqvist},
title = { Semantic decoupling: reducing the impact of requirement changes },
note = {Accepted, not published yet. (as of Aug 2010)},
month = {August},
year = {2010},
journal = {Requirements Engineering},
url = {http://www.es.mdu.se/publications/1908-}
}