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Tool-Based Requirement Traceability between Requirement and Design Artifacts

verfasst von: Bernhard Turban

Verlag: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden

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Processes for developing safety-critical systems impose special demands on ensuring requirements traceability. Achieving valuable traceability information, however, is especially difficult concerning the transition from requirements to design. Bernhard Turban analyzes systems and software engineering theories cross-cutting the issue (embedded systems development, systems engineering, software engineering, requirements engineering and management, design theory and processes for safety-critical systems). As a solution, the author proposes a new tool approach to support designers in their thinking in order to achieve traceability as a by-product to normal design activities and to extend traceability information with information about design decision rationale.

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Frontmatter
1. Introduction
Abstract
Usually, systems developed by humans are not developed for their own sake of existence. Instead, these systems shall help to achieve certain human goals or purposes. Goals or purposes, however, are often very abstract and vague in the same way as the usage situations of these systems are manifold and complex. Correspondingly, a more precise definition of what a system must exactly perform is needed. This leads to the need for defining the exact requirements of a system. Then, such a system must just be designed and constructed to fulfill the defined requirements.
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I.. General Context and Theories
Abstract
This part shall provide the fundamental understanding of most core concepts involved in the construct of ideas leading to this thesis and its results. Consequently, the following chapters provide an overview over the major research fields having influence on the outcome of this thesis. If employed, requirements traceability can be seen as a crosscutting concern of all development activities. Correspondingly these chapters strive a considerable set of very different general research disciplines.
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II.. Rationale Management and Traceability in Detailed Discussion
Abstract
After the last part described the different major topics this thesis is related to, this part now discusses the two central research topics in detail. These topics are rationale management (RatMan) and requirements traceability. In ch. II.9, RatMan is discussed as major research field on how information about important design decisions can be successfully captured in order to ensure that information important for change management and long-term collaborative is conserved.
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III.. PROVEtech:R2A – A Tool for Dedicated Requirements Traceability
Abstract
This part describes the traceability tool solution PROVEtech:R2A (R2A) especially dedicated to cross the substantial gap between the requirements (i.e. problem space) and the design solutions (i.e. solution space).
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IV.. Synopsis
Abstract
Now, this last part finishes this thesis. At first, a short summary of the achieved results of this research project is provided. This is then followed by a prospectus of possible further questions to continue research on, either improving the current features set of R2A or more general on the research topics of this thesis. At the end, the author tries to summarize the general conclusions to draw from this thesis.
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Backmatter
Metadaten
Titel
Tool-Based Requirement Traceability between Requirement and Design Artifacts
verfasst von
Bernhard Turban
Copyright-Jahr
2013
Verlag
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
Electronic ISBN
978-3-8348-2474-5
Print ISBN
978-3-8348-2473-8
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-8348-2474-5

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