A technique for managing complexity of use cases for large complex embedded systems

Modern computer based systems are becoming increasingly complex ensembles of hardware and software; thus adding more challenges to the software requirements engineering process. Although it is well acknowledged in the literature that the use case technique provides a successful requirements engineer...

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Published inProceedings Fifth IEEE International Symposium on Object-Oriented Real-Time Distributed Computing. ISIRC 2002 pp. 225 - 232
Main Authors Nasr, E., McDermid, J., Bernat, G.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 2002
Subjects
Aerospace industry
Application software
Computer aided software engineering
Computer science
Content addressable storage
Embedded computing
Embedded system
Hardware
Jacobian matrices
Large-scale systems
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Summary:Modern computer based systems are becoming increasingly complex ensembles of hardware and software; thus adding more challenges to the software requirements engineering process. Although it is well acknowledged in the literature that the use case technique provides a successful requirements engineering tool, there is very little published material on how the use case technique deals with large complex systems. This paper proposes an extension for the use case technique by defining a hierarchical framework for the use cases of large complex embedded systems, and giving some guidance on how to identify actors on different levels. The technique is a result of practical experience with an industrial real-life case study from the aerospace industry.
ISBN:0769515584
9780769515588
DOI:10.1109/ISORC.2002.1003708