Crosscutting concern identification at requirements level
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2008
Abstract
An unresolved problem faced by software developers is the failure to identify and modularize certain artefacts that compose the software. It is difficult to modularize these artefacts because they are dispersed among other artefacts in the software properties. Aspects Oriented Requirements Engineering is showing encouraging results in improving identification, modularization and composition of crosscutting concerns. Identifying and documenting crosscutting concerns at the requirements-level is crucial. It avoids coupling between requirements, improves traceability among requirements, eases function modularization, reduces software complexity, enhances the correctness of the software design and most importantly it saves the cost. Although the research area is still in its infancy, several techniques for crosscutting concern identification have already been developed. However, all of the techniques reviewed are based on semi-automated way whereby human intervention is required to achieve the desired results. Therefore, in this paper, a fully automated technique based on Natural Language Processing (NLP) is proposed to identify crosscutting concern at the requirements level.
Keywords
Requirements Engineering, Aspect-oriented Requirements Engineering, Crosscutting Concern, Crosscutting Identification.
Divisions
Software
Publication Title
Malaysian Journal of Computer Science
Volume
21
Issue
2
Additional Information
Ali, Busyairah Syd Kasirun, Zarinah Mohd