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The relationship between requirements and architectures is an important research field on software engineering. One of its challenges is to provide proper support for their co-evolution, i.e., how to assess the mutual impact of requirements and architecture changes on each other, as well as how to react to these changes in order to prevent misalignment between them.We advocate the use of a single goal model to express both requirements and architectural concerns. In this paper we put forward an approach for requirements and architecture co-evolution considering such a model. Moreover, we outline the reasoning required in order to support forward and backward co-evolution of service oriented systems.
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Pimentel, J., Castro, J., Santos, E., Finkelstein, A. (2012). Towards Requirements and Architecture Co-evolution. In: Bajec, M., Eder, J. (eds) Advanced Information Systems Engineering Workshops. CAiSE 2012. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 112. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31069-0_14
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