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Addressing non-orthogonal software concerns that arise from requirements can significantly contribute to the complexity of developing large systems. Difficulties arise from the need to: locate related requirements, reason about the software concerns they represent, and analyze the impact of changing requirements. We address these issues through the use of requirements aspects. We present a method to identify requirements aspects from viewpoints, to associate requirements aspects with generic design solutions based on domain experience, and to specify the generic solutions using the UML. We demonstrate these techniques using a smart home controller application.
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Georg, G., Reddy, R., France, R. (2004). Specifying Cross-Cutting Requirement Concerns. In: Baar, T., Strohmeier, A., Moreira, A., Mellor, S.J. (eds) «UML» 2004 — The Unified Modeling Language. Modeling Languages and Applications. UML 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3273. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30187-5_9
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