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Enhancing a requirements baseline with scenarios

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Scenarios are well recognised as an important strategy towards understanding the interface between the environment and the system as well as a means of eliciting and specifying software behaviour. We adopt a broader view of scenarios. For us, a scenario is an evolving description of situations in the environment. Our proposal is framed by Leite’s work on a client-oriented requirements baseline, which aims to model the external requirements of a software system and its evolution. Scenarios start by describing the environment situations, according to the main actions performed outside the software system. Scenarios also help to clarify the interrelation between functional and non-functional requirements. We have validated our strategy and the related representations based on case studies.

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  1. Departamento de Informática, PUC-Rio, R. Marquês de S. Vicente 225, 22453-900, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Julio Cesar Sampaio do Prado Leite & Gustavo Rossi

  2. Dep. de Investigación, Universidad de Belgrano, R. Marquês de S. Vicente 225, 22453-900, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Federico Balaguer, Vanesa Maiorana, Gladys Kaplan, Graciela Hadad & Alejandro Oliveros

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Leite, J.C.S.d.P., Rossi, G., Balaguer, F. et al. Enhancing a requirements baseline with scenarios. Requirements Eng 2, 184–198 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02745371

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