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Quality requirements engineering for systems and software architecting: methods, approaches, and tools

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Requirements engineering and software architecture are quite mature software engineering sub-disciplines, which often seem to be disconnected for many reasons and it is difficult to perceive the impact of functional and non-functional requirements on architecture and to establish appropriate trace links for traceability purposes. In other cases, the estimation of how non-functional requirements, as the quality properties a system should pose, is not perceived useful enough to produce high-quality software. Therefore, in this special issue, we want to highlight the importance and the role of quality requirements for architecting and building complex software systems that in many cases require multidisciplinary engineering techniques, which increases the complexity of the software development process.

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Acknowledgments

We would like to thank all the people that contributed to the preparation of this special issue and Professor P. Loucopoulos, as Requirements Engineering Journal co-Editor-in-Chief, for giving us this opportunity. We also give thanks to Professor W. Robinson, co-Editor-in-Chief for his accurate comments and review of this Editorial. Finally, we want to thank the reviewers who contribute with their effort in reviewing the articles of this special issue.

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  1. Universidad Rey Juan Carlos de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Rafael Capilla

  2. IT University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Muhammad Ali Babar

  3. Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain

    Oscar Pastor

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Capilla, R., Ali Babar, M. & Pastor, O. Quality requirements engineering for systems and software architecting: methods, approaches, and tools. Requirements Eng 17, 255–258 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00766-011-0137-9

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