Eliciting dependability requirements: A control cases based approach

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	Eliciting dependability requirements: A control cases based approach
	Liu, Chun (3); Wang, Yue (3); Zhang, Wei (1); Jin, Zhi (1); Jin, Z.(zhijin@pku.edu.cn)
	2014
发表期刊	Science China Information Sciences
ISSN	1674733X
卷号	57 期号:1 页码:1-15
摘要	At present, great demands are posed on software dependability. But how to elicit the dependability requirements is still a challenging task. This paper proposes a novel approach to address this issue. The essential idea is to model a dependable software system as a feedforward-feedback control system, and presents the use cases + control cases model to express the requirements of the dependable software systems. In this model, while the use cases are adopted to model the functional requirements, two kinds of control cases (namely the feedforward control cases and the feedback control cases) are designed to model the dependability requirements. The use cases + control cases model provides a unified framework to integrate the modeling of the functional requirements and the dependability requirements at a high abstract level. To guide the elicitation of the dependability requirements, a HAZOP based process is also designed. A case study is conducted to illustrate the feasibility of the proposed approach. © 2013 Science China Press and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.; At present, great demands are posed on software dependability. But how to elicit the dependability requirements is still a challenging task. This paper proposes a novel approach to address this issue. The essential idea is to model a dependable software system as a feedforward-feedback control system, and presents the use cases + control cases model to express the requirements of the dependable software systems. In this model, while the use cases are adopted to model the functional requirements, two kinds of control cases (namely the feedforward control cases and the feedback control cases) are designed to model the dependability requirements. The use cases + control cases model provides a unified framework to integrate the modeling of the functional requirements and the dependability requirements at a high abstract level. To guide the elicitation of the dependability requirements, a HAZOP based process is also designed. A case study is conducted to illustrate the feasibility of the proposed approach. © 2013 Science China Press and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
收录类别	EI
部门归属	(1) Key Laboratory of High Confidence Software Technologies (Peking University), Ministry of Education, Beijing, 100871, China; (2) Institute of Software, School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China; (3) Academy of Mathematics and System Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China
语种	英语
内容类型	期刊论文
URI标识	http://ir.iscas.ac.cn/handle/311060/17030
专题	中国科学院软件研究所
通讯作者	Jin, Z.(zhijin@pku.edu.cn)
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Liu, Chun ,Wang, Yue ,Zhang, Wei ,et al. Eliciting dependability requirements: A control cases based approach[J]. Science China Information Sciences,2014,57(1):1-15.
APA	Liu, Chun ,Wang, Yue ,Zhang, Wei ,Jin, Zhi ,&Jin, Z..(2014).Eliciting dependability requirements: A control cases based approach.Science China Information Sciences,57(1),1-15.
MLA	Liu, Chun ,et al."Eliciting dependability requirements: A control cases based approach".Science China Information Sciences 57.1(2014):1-15.