Data is considered as fundamental asset for organizations, its strategic value leads to reconsider the importance of maintaining adequate levels of quality in data that is managed by applications. However, within the context of Web applications development, no mechanisms to adequately control Data Quality (DQ) requirements have been still proposed. This proposal is grounded on the idea of antic...

From our experience with customers who deploy customized software products, we have learned that deriving products from shared software assets requires more than complying with quality standards like ISO9126. Additionally, developers must consider what we call the quality profile of the final product. A process that matches the quality profile of final product during product derivation helps pr...

This study argues that metadata of library catalogs can stand autonomously, providing valuable information detached from the resources they point to and, therefore, could be used as data in the context of the Semantic Web. We present an analysis of this perception followed by an implementation proposal for a Master’s thesis and PhD dissertation repository. The analysis builds on the flexibility...

Use Cases that describe possible interactions involving a system and its environment are increasingly being accepted as effective means for functional requirements elicitation and analysis. In the current practice, informal definitions of use cases are used and the analysis process is manual. In this paper, we present an approach supported by a tool for use cases based requirements engineering....

This paper describes and illustrates a methodology for identifying the correctness of software functional requirements on the basis of a logic-based dynamic framework. It focuses on the issues related to user and/or system functional requirements; quality attributes, measures and analysis methods, and integrates the core concepts of the Graphical Requirement Analysis (GRA) and COSMIC-FFP techni...

Requirement Engineering (RE) deals with the requirements of a proposed solution and handles conflicting requirements of the various stakeholders and is critical to the success of a project. Good requirement engineering methodologies should be measurable, testable and should be sufficient for system design. Another important aspect of Requirement engineering is to capture the non functional requ...

The development of cyber-physical system (CPS) is a big challenge because of its complexity and its complex requirements. Especially in Requirements Engineering (RE), there exist many redundant and conflict requirements. Eliminating conflict requirements and merged redundant/common requirements lead a challenging task at the elicitation phase in the requirements engineering process for CPS. Col...

[Context and motivation] There is considerable flexibility in requirements specifications (both functional and non-functional), as well as in the features of available OSS components. This allows a collaborative matching and negotiation process between stakeholders such as: customers, software contractors and OSS communities, regarding desired requirements versus available and thus reusable OSS...

Multi-dimensional data (i.e., data referenced in one, two, three, and four dimensions) are often managed by transportation agencies with databases and technologies that cannot be integrated due in part to the lack of a comprehensive model for location referencing of the data. This lack of a comprehensive location referencing system data model limits organizations in implementing improved soluti...