Requirements Engineering: First Asia Pacific Requirements Engineering Symposium, APRES 2014, Auckland, New Zealand, April 28-29, 2014. Proceedings

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by  Didar Zowghi

Didar Zowghi
Zhi Jin (Eds.)
Communications in Computer and Information Science 432
Requirements
Engineering
First Asia Pacific
Requirements Engineering Symposium, APRES 2014
Auckland, New Zealand, April 28–29, 2014, Proceedings
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Communications
in Computer and Information Science 432
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Didar Zowghi Zhi Jin (Eds.)
Requirements
Engineering
FirstAsia Pacific
Requirements Engineering Symposium,APRES 2014
Auckland, New Zealand,April 28-29, 2014
Proceedings
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VolumeEditors
DidarZowghi
UniversityofTechnology,Sydney(UTS)
FacultyofEngineeringandInformationTechnology
Sydney,NSW,Australia
E-Mail:[email protected]
ZhiJin
PekingUniversity
DepartmentofComputerScience
SchoolofElectronicsEngineeringandComputerScience
Beijing,China
E-Mail:[email protected]
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Preface
TheinauguralAsiaPacificRequirementsEngineeringSymposium(APRES2014)
washeld at the Auckland Universityof Technology(AUT), in the beautiful city
of Auckland, in New Zealand during April 28–29, 2014. Requirements engineer-
ing (RE) has become a well-established discipline of research and practice in
software and systems development. The importance of eliciting and document-
inghigh-qualityrequirementsandfollowingeffectiveREpracticeshaslongbeen
recognizedbyresearchersandpractitionersalike.Themainaimofthisinitiative
is to develop and expand the RE research and practice community specifically
in the Asia Pacific region and to foster collaborations among researchers and
practitioners in Asia, Australia, and New Zealand.
WesoughtsubmissionsonallaspectsofRE.Inparticular,papersthatpresent
novel ideas, methods, tools, and techniques for improving and enhancing RE
products and processes. We were also interested in reflections on current indus-
trial RE practices. A total of 30 submissions were received, of which 27 entered
the review process (after discarding three papers, two were out of scope and
one was an abstract only). Each paper was reviewed by three members of the
APRES Program Committee. All the reviews were assessed for quality by the
program chairs. Sixteen papers written by authors from ten different countries
were selected for publication and were presented in four sessions.
This volume serves as a record of APRES 2014 proceedings but it also rep-
resents a snapshot of the state of RE research in the Asia Pacific region. We
believe that these proceedings will be of interest to the entire RE community,
whether students or experienced researchers.
WewouldliketoexpressourgratitudetotheAucklandUniversityofTechnol-
ogy, especially the Software Engineering ResearchLab (SERL), and its director
Jim Buchan for hosting the inaugural APRES. We would also like to acknowl-
edgethesupportprovidedbytheCentreforHumanCentredTechnologyDesign
Research from the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS).
April 2014 Didar Zowghi
Zhi Jin
Organization
General Chair
Jim Buchan Auckland University of Technology,
New Zealand
Program Co-chairs
Didar Zowghi University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Zhi Jin Peking University, China
Website Manager and Publicity Chair
Muneera Bano University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Program Committee
Mikio Aoyama Nanzan University, Japan
Muhammad Ali Babar Adelaide University, Australia
Muneera Bano University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Tony Clear Auckland University of Technology,
New Zealand
Mohamed El-Attar King Fahd University of Petroleum and
Minerals, Saudi Arabia
Smita Ghaisa TataResearchDesignandDevelopmentCenter,
India
Aditya Ghose University of Wollongong, Australia
Asif Gill University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
John Grundy Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Naveed Ikram Riphah International University, Pakistan
Massila Kamalrudin Universiti teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Malaysia
Seok-Won Lee Ajou University, South Korea
Lin Liu Tsinghua University, China
Stephen MacDonell University of Otago, New Zealand
Stuart Marshall VictoriaUniversityofWellington,NewZealand
Mahmood Niazi King Fahd University of Petroleum and
Minerals, Saudi Arabia
VIII Organization
Lemai Nguyen Deakin University, Melbourne Australia
David Parsons Massey University Auckland, New Zealand
Xin Peng Fudan University, China
Samiaji Sarousa Atma Jaya Yogyakarta University, Indonesia
Shahida Sulaiman University Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia
Tetsuo Tamai Hosei University, Japan
Xinyu Wang Zhejiang University, China
Yijian Wu Fudan University, China
Haiyan Zhao Peking University, China
Li Zhang Beihang University, China
Table of Contents
A Process-Oriented Conceptual Framework on Non-Functional
Requirements.................................................... 1
Lianshan Sun and Jaehong Park
Capturing Security Requirements Using Essential Use Cases (EUCs) ... 16
Syazwani Yahya, Massila Kamalrudin, Safiah Sidek, and
John Grundy
Utilizing TOPSIS: A Multi Criteria Decision Analysis Technique for
Non-Functional Requirements Conflicts ............................. 31
Dewi Mairiza, Didar Zowghi, and Vincenzo Gervasi
Analysis of Economic Impact of Online Reviews: An Approach for
Market-Driven Requirements Evolution ............................. 45
Wei Jiang, Haibin Ruan, and Li Zhang
An IT-Driven Business Requirements Engineering Methodology........ 60
Masahiro Ide, Tomoko Kishida, Mikio Aoyama, and
Yasuhiro Kikushima
Efficient Identification of Rationales by Stakeholder Relationship
Analysis to Refine and Maintain GQM+Strategies Models ............ 77
Takanobu Kobori, Hironori Washizaki, Yoshiaki Fukazawa,
Daisuke Hirabayashi, Katsutoshi Shintani, Yasuko Okazaki, and
Yasuhiro Kikushima
Addressing the Challenges of Alignment of Requirements and Services:
A Vision for User-Centered Method ................................ 83
Muneera Bano and Naveed Ikram
Evaluating the BPCRAR Method: A Collaborative Method for
Business Process Oriented Requirements Acquisition and Refining...... 90
Han Lai, Rong Peng, and Yuze Ni
Modeling and Specifying Parametric Adaptation Mechanism for
Self-Adaptive Systems ............................................ 105
Zhuoqun Yang and Zhi Jin
Evaluating Presentation of Requirements Documents: Results of an
Experiment ..................................................... 120
Yu-Cheng Tu, Ewan Tempero, and Clark Thomborson
X Table of Contents
Impact Analysis of Granularity Levels on Feature Location
Technique....................................................... 135
Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn, Akinori Ihara, Hideaki Hata, and
Kenichi Matsumoto
A Pair-Oriented Requirements Engineering Approach for Analysing
Multi-lingual Requirements........................................ 150
Massila Kamalrudin, Safiah Sidek, Norsaremah Salleh,
John Hosking, and John Grundy
An Empirical Cognitive Model of the Development of Shared
Understanding of Requirements.................................... 165
Jim Buchan
Evaluating the Cognitive Effectiveness of the Visual Syntax of Feature
Diagrams ....................................................... 180
Mazin Saeed, Faisal Saleh, Sadiq Al-Insaif, and Mohamed El-Attar
The Role of Requirements Engineering Practices in Agile Development:
An Empirical Study .............................................. 195
Xinyu Wang, Liping Zhao, Ye Wang, and Jie Sun
Support Method to Elicit Accessibility Requirements ................. 210
Junko Shirogane
Author Index.................................................. 225
A Process-Oriented Conceptual Framework
on Non-Functional Requirements
Lianshan Sun1 and Jaehong Park2
1 Dept.of Comp. Sci., Shaanxi Univ.of Sci. & Tech., Xi’an, China, 710021
2 Instituteof CyberSecurity,Univ.of Texas at San Antonio, TX, USA,78249
Abstract. Non-FunctionalRequirements(NFR),as itsemergence, isa
buzzword that is mostly overused while remaining obscure. There is no
consensus on what NFR is, how to identify NFR during software devel-
opment,andwhatcapabilitiesadesiredNFRmodelingapproachshould
deliver. To this end, this paper proposes a process-oriented conceptual
framework on NFR. It explicitly distinguishes NFR from application-
independent domain knowledge, such as quality attributes, tactics, and
variousconstraints,thendefinesNFRasthecompositioninspecificcon-
texts of domain knowledge and various system abstractions, which in-
cludenotonlythetargetsystem,butsoftware modelsthatconceptually
definethetargetsystematearlystagesofsoftwaredevelopment.Enlight-
enedbytheframework, weproduceachecklistforNFRidentificationin
thewholedevelopmentprocess. Wealso analyzethemethodological im-
plications of our framework and discuss the fundamental capabilities of
a desired NFR modeling approach.
1 Introduction
Software requirements, derived from stakeholders’ needs and environment con-
straints, guide software development and determine whether a target software
meets the intended purposes [1,2]. Requirements engineering, also called soft-
ware analysis, is the process of eliciting, analyzing, specifying, validating, and
managing software requirements. The primary focus of requirements engineer-
ing has been functional requirements, which specify functions that a system or
system component must deliver to users [3]. Increasingly, both researchers and
practitionersrealizedthatthereexistmanyotherrequirementsthatplayimpor-
tant role in shaping the target system, defining the development process, and
managingthe developmentproject[4]. Non-FunctionalRequirements(NFR), as
an umbrella term, then was coined to name these requirements [5].
Noticed the importance of NFR, researchers have paid much efforts on clari-
fying NFR from functional requirements and have proposed plenty of NFR def-
initions over the last three decades [6,7]. For example, Chung et al. define NFR
as any “-ilities”, “ities”, along with many other things that do not necessarily
end with either of them, such as performance, user-friendliness and coherence,
as well as concerns on productivity, time, cost and personal happiness [6]. Un-
like Chung’s broad NFR definition, Glinz rules out the process requirements
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