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[Context and Motivation] In function-centered engineering of embedded systems, changes of stakeholder intentions are often directly incorporated in the functional design without updating the behavioral requirements accordingly. [Question/Problem] As a consequence, it is likely that the behavioral requirements of the system become outdated over the course of the engineering process. [Principal Ideas/Results] We propose a validation technique that aids the requirements engineer in detecting and correcting outdated behavioral requirements. The approach relies on a dedicated review model that represents a consolidated view of behavioral requirements and functional design. [Contributions] This paper reports on a semi-automated approach and presents first experimental results showing that our technique can significantly aid the requirements engineer in the detection and correction of outdated behavioral requirements.
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Daun, M., Weyer, T., Pohl, K. (2015). Detecting and Correcting Outdated Requirements in Function-Centered Engineering of Embedded Systems. In: Fricker, S., Schneider, K. (eds) Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality. REFSQ 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9013. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16101-3_5
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