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An ASPIRE-based method for quality requirements identification from business goals

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Quality requirements are the main drivers for modeling and evaluating software quality at an early stage, and ASPIRE is an engineering method designed to elicit and document the quality requirements of embedded systems. This paper proposes an extension to ASPIRE to identify quality requirements from the business goals of the organization and ensure their traceability. This extension includes a set of added components created from the main concepts of the SOQUAREM methodology, including the BMM (business motivation model), derivation rules, the quality attribute utility tree, the quality attribute scenario template, the quality attribute documentation template, and ISO 9126. The applicability of the extended method is illustrated with a wireless plant control system as an example.

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  1. The term “NFR” is used in the ASPIRE method, while in this paper, we prefer to use the term “QR.”

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    Rachida Djouab & Alain Abran

  2. Software Engineering and Information Management, Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) , CS 20, FI-53851, Lappeenranta, Finland

    Ahmed Seffah

  3. School of Industrial Engineering and Management, Lappeenranta, Finland

    Ahmed Seffah

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Djouab, R., Abran, A. & Seffah, A. An ASPIRE-based method for quality requirements identification from business goals. Requirements Eng 21, 87–106 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00766-014-0211-1

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