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Towards the integration of sysml and problem frames

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Pietro Colombo,

Vieri del Bianco,

Luigi LavazzaAuthors Info & Claims

IWAAPF '08: Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop on Applications and advances of problem frames

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1370811.1370813

Published: 10 May 2008 Publication History

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Today, analysts are offered a wide set of conceptual tools for requirements enginering, including modelling languages, like UML and SysML, and methodological approaches, like Problem Frames. However, these conceptual tools, which address different needs and activities, are generally not integrated, thus making it difficult to effectively use more than one of them at a time. This paper addresses the integration of Problem Frames and SysML, by presenting how a set of well known problem frames can be represented by means of SysML. The idea is that problem frames can benefit from SysML as a powerful notation, while SysML users get a sound methodological approach, which is absent from the current proposal of SysML. The integration opens the way to a full model centric requirement analysis approach. Models favour

the transition from the requirements to the design phase, hence the resulting model can be conveniently used as a starting point for design.

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Colombo PKhendek FLavazza L(2011)Generating early design models from requirements analysis artifacts using problem frames and SysMLProceedings of the 7th European conference on Modelling foundations and applications10.5555/2023522.2023534(97-114)Online publication date: 6-Jun-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2023522.2023534
Cote IHeisel M(2011)A UML Profile and Tool Support for Evolutionary Requirements EngineeringProceedings of the 2011 15th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering10.1109/CSMR.2011.22(161-170)Online publication date: 1-Mar-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/CSMR.2011.22
Colombo PKhendek FLavazza L(2011)Generating Early Design Models from Requirements Analysis Artifacts Using Problem Frames and SysMLModelling Foundations and Applications10.1007/978-3-642-21470-7_8(97-114)Online publication date: 2011
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21470-7_8
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Towards the integration of sysml and problem frames
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software development process management
      1. Software development methods
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. System description languages
      1. Specification languages

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IWAAPF '08: Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop on Applications and advances of problem frames

May 2008

88 pages

ISBN:9781605580203

DOI:10.1145/1370811

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Lucia Rapanotti
The Open University, UK
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Jon G. Hall
The Open University, UK
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Zhi Jin
Chinese Academy of Science, China
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Karl Cox
National ICT, Australia

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Colombo PKhendek FLavazza L(2011)Generating early design models from requirements analysis artifacts using problem frames and SysMLProceedings of the 7th European conference on Modelling foundations and applications10.5555/2023522.2023534(97-114)Online publication date: 6-Jun-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2023522.2023534
Cote IHeisel M(2011)A UML Profile and Tool Support for Evolutionary Requirements EngineeringProceedings of the 2011 15th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering10.1109/CSMR.2011.22(161-170)Online publication date: 1-Mar-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/CSMR.2011.22
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