Semantic decoupling: reducing the impact of requirement changes |
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Authors: | Israel Navarro Nancy Leveson Kristina Lunqvist |
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Affiliation: | (1) Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Room 33-334, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA; |
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Abstract: | The continuous stream of requirements changes that often takes place during software development and can create major problems
in the development process. This paper defines a concept we call semantic coupling that can be used during all the phases of a system specification and design to reduce the impact of changing requirements.
Within the general framework of the intent specifications, traceability matrices representing the mappings between different
abstraction levels are used to evaluate the sensitivity of a given design to requirement changes. The practicality of using
the approach on real software is demonstrated using the specification of the control software for a NASA robot designed to
service the heat-resistant tiles on the Space Shuttle. |
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