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Composing Goal and Scenario Models with the Aspect-Oriented User Requirements Notation Based on Syntax and Semantics

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The Aspect-oriented User Requirements Notation (AoURN) combines goal-oriented, scenario-based, and aspect-oriented concepts into a framework for requirements engineering activities. AoURN’s approach to composition takes the structure of AoURN’s goal and scenario notations into account. Composition is hence tailored to these two notations to balance reusability of the aspect specification and the amount of duplication it requires. Furthermore, the composition mechanism of AoURN supports advanced interleaved composition rules in addition to the traditional before, after, and around composition rules. Interleaved composition allows two scenarios to be combined without losing sight of the overall behavior of each individual scenario. Finally, AoURN employs an enhanced composition mechanism based on semantic equivalences in each of its two sub-notations. The enhanced composition mechanism ensures that a certain class of refactoring operations may be performed on an AoURN model without interfering with the desired aspect composition. An example based on a common case study illustrates the usage of interleaved and semantics-based composition for AoURN’s scenario model.

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  1. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), McGill University, 3480 University Street, Montreal, QC, H3A 0E9, Canada

    Gunter Mussbacher

  2. EECS, University of Ottawa, 800 King Edward, Ottawa, ON, Canada, K1N 6N5

    Daniel Amyot

  3. Department of Computing, InfoLab21, Lancaster University, Bailrigg, Lancaster, LA1 4YW, UK

    Jon Whittle

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  2. University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

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  3. Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal

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  4. University of Lancaster, Lancaster, United Kingdom

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Mussbacher, G., Amyot, D., Whittle, J. (2013). Composing Goal and Scenario Models with the Aspect-Oriented User Requirements Notation Based on Syntax and Semantics. In: Moreira, A., Chitchyan, R., Araújo, J., Rashid, A. (eds) Aspect-Oriented Requirements Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38640-4_5

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