Agents, goals, and quality in a structured requirements engineering framework - a case study

The paper presents a process modelling-based Requirements Engineering Framework, where advanced requirements engineering techniques are combined with software quality modelling approaches to better assist and drive analysts and stakeholders to an early definition and validation of the desired system functionality and quality attributes, while supporting the redesign of the application context to better exploit the new system’s capabilities. As a case study, the framework is applied to support the requirements engineering process for a Synthetic Environment. Synthetic Environments are complex software-intensive simulation systems, which are increasingly used to support vitally important operational, political and economic decisions, in a variety of industrial and governmental settings.