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A More Expressive Softgoal Conceptualization for Quality Requirements Analysis

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Conceptual Modeling - ER 2006 (ER 2006)

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Initial software quality requirements tend to be imprecise, subjective, idealistic, and context-specific. An extended characterization of the common Softgoal concept is proposed for representing and reasoning about such requirements during the early stages of the requirements engineering process. The types of information often implicitly contained in a Softgoal instance are highlighted to allow richer requirements to be obtained. On the basis of the revisited conceptual foundations, guidelines are suggested as to the techniques that need to be present in requirements modeling approaches that aim to employ the given Softgoal conceptualization.

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  1. Information Management Research Unit (IMRU), University of Namur, 8 Rempart de la Vierge, B-5000, Namur, Belgium

    Ivan J. Jureta & Stéphane Faulkner

  2. Institut d’Informatique, University of Namur, 8 Rempart de la Vierge, B-5000, Namur, Belgium

    Pierre-Yves Schobbens

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  2. Universitat Politècnica Catalunya, Jordi Girona 1-3, 08034, Barcelona, Spain

    Antoni Olivé

  3. Department of MIS, Eller School of Management,, University of Arizona, 430J McClelland Hall, 85721, Tucson, AZ

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Jureta, I.J., Faulkner, S., Schobbens, PY. (2006). A More Expressive Softgoal Conceptualization for Quality Requirements Analysis. In: Embley, D.W., Olivé, A., Ram, S. (eds) Conceptual Modeling - ER 2006. ER 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4215. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11901181_22

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