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A domain specific requirements model for scientific computing (NIER track)

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Nitesh Narayan,

Maximilian KoegelAuthors Info & Claims

ICSE '11: Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Software Engineering

Pages 848 - 851

https://doi.org/10.1145/1985793.1985922

Published: 21 May 2011 Publication History

Abstract

Requirements engineering is a core activity in software engineering. However, formal requirements engineering methodologies and documented requirements are often missing in scientific computing projects. We claim that there is a need for methodologies, which capture requirements for scientific computing projects, because traditional requirements engineering methodologies are difficult to apply in this domain.

We propose a novel domain specific requirements model to meet this need. We conducted an exploratory experiment to evaluate the usage of this model in scientific computing projects. The results indicate that the proposed model facilitates the communication across the domain boundary, which is between the scientific computing domain and the software engineering domain. It supports requirements elicitation for the projects efficiently.

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A domain specific requirements model for scientific computing (NIER track)
1. Applied computing
  1. Physical sciences and engineering
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Designing software
      1. Requirements analysis

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ICSE '11: Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Software Engineering

May 2011

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ISBN:9781450304450

DOI:10.1145/1985793

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UC Irvine, USA
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University of Zurich, Switzerland
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University of Southern California, USA

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