A process and tool support for managing activity and resource conflicts based on requirements classification

초록

The more complicated and large-scaled software systems get, the more important software requirements become, and detecting conflicts between requirements is one of the essential matters that must be considered for successful software projects. Formal methods have been proposed to tackle this problem by adding formality and removing ambiguity. However, they are hard to understand by non-experts, which limit their application to restricted domains. In addition, there is no overall process that covers all the steps for managing conflicts. We propose a process for systematically identifying and managing requirements conflicts. This process is composed of four steps: requirements authoring, partition, conflicts detection and conflicts management. The detection and management of the conflicts are done based on the requirements partition in natural language and supported by a tool. To demonstrate its feasibility, the proposed process has been applied to a home integration system (HIS) and the results are analyzed.

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