Goal-oriented requirements engineering (GORE) approaches offer a natural way to capture similarities and the variability in software product lines (SPLs) development. Besides, they can effectively capture both the stakeholders’ objectives and the system requirements. From i* models, for example, it is possible to systematically obtain feature models. To complement the requirements specification...

Abstract In product development, it is of great importance that a complete, unambiguous, and, as far possible, contradiction-free target system defined. Requirements documents complex systems can contain several thousand individual requirements, derived in an interdisciplinary manner and written natural language by many different stakeholders. Hence, errors, the form contradictions, cannot be c...