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A typical software product is developed so that it can fulfill the specific needs (problem that needs to be solved) within a given business domain, based on a proper product design context. Although, assuring an alignment between the technological developments with the business domain is a demanding task. With the purpose of clarifying the relations between the models that support the business and the software representations, we present in this paper a V-Model based approach to align the business domain requirements with the context for product design. This V Model encompasses the models that support the initial definition of the project goals, expressed through organizational configurations, and the analysis and design of models that result in a process-level perspective of the system’s logical architecture. Our approach adopts a process-level perspective with the intent to create context for product-level requirement elicitation. We present a case study as a demonstration and assessment of the applicability of our approach. Since the case study is extremely complex, we illustrate how to use the ARID method to evaluate the obtained process-level architecture.
This work is financed by project ISOFIN (QREN 2010/013837), Fundos FEDER through Programa Operacional Fatores de Competitividade – COMPETE and Fundos Nacionais though FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-022674).
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Ferreira, N., Santos, N., Machado, R.J., Gašević, D. (2013). Aligning Domain-Related Models for Creating Context for Software Product Design. In: Winkler, D., Biffl, S., Bergsmann, J. (eds) Software Quality. Increasing Value in Software and Systems Development. SWQD 2013. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 133. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35702-2_11
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