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Architecting Dependable Systems V pp 225–247Cite as

Toward Architecture Evaluation through Ontology-Based Requirements-Level Scenarios

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We describe an approach for evaluating whether a candidate architecture dependably satisfies stakeholder requirements expressed in requirements-level scenarios. We map scenarios to architectural elements through an ontology of requirements-level event classes and domain entities. The scenarios express both functional requirements and quality attributes of the system; for quality attributes, the scenarios either operationalize the quality or show how the quality can be verified. Our approach provides a connection between requirements a stakeholder can understand directly, and architectures developed to satisfy those requirements. The requirements-level ontology simplifies the mapping, acts as the focus for maintaining the mapping as both scenarios and architecture evolve, and provides a foundation for evaluating scenarios and architecture individually and jointly. In this paper, we focus on the mapping through event classes and demonstrate our approach with two examples.

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    Mamadou H. Diallo, Leila Naslavsky, Thomas A. Alspaugh, Hadar Ziv & Debra J. Richardson

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Diallo, M.H., Naslavsky, L., Alspaugh, T.A., Ziv, H., Richardson, D.J. (2008). Toward Architecture Evaluation through Ontology-Based Requirements-Level Scenarios. In: de Lemos, R., Di Giandomenico, F., Gacek, C., Muccini, H., Vieira, M. (eds) Architecting Dependable Systems V. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5135. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85571-2_10

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