Requirements to Architecture

Little guidance and few methods are available to develop and refine system requirements into an architecture satisfying those requirements. Our work on CBSP (Connector, Bus, System, Property) focuses on reconciling requirements and system architectures. While the approach appears to have broader applicability, to date we have extensively applied it to a particular requirements elicitation technique, EasyWinWin, and an architectural style, C2. We have demonstrated our approach using a complex example that adopts EasyWinWin negotiations and C2-style architectural models. We also have partial tool support.

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Reconciling Software Requirements and Architecture with Intermediate Models
Stemming Architectural Erosion by Coupling Architectural Discovery and Recovery
Reconciling Software Requirements and Architectures - The CBSP Approach
Bridging Models across the Software Life-Cycle
Refinement and Evolution Issues in Bridging Requirements and Architectures
Dimensions of Concerns in Requirements Negotiation and Architecture Modeling

Requirements to Architecture

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