Non functional requirements (NFRs) traceability metamodel for agile development

Agile methodologies are well known for early and frequent releases. Besides, these methodologies also handle requirement changes well without causing delays. However, it has been noticed that the functional requirements changes can affect the non-functional requirements (NFRs) such as security and p...

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Main Authors: Firdaus, Adila, Ghani, Imran, Abg. Jawawi, Dayang Norhayati, Wan Kadir, Wan Mohd. Nasir
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Penerbit UTM Press 2015
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Online Access:http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/56156/1/ImranGhani2015_NonFunctionalRequirements%28NFRs%29Traceability.pdf
http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/56156/
http://dx.doi.org/10.11113/jt.v77.6191
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Summary:Agile methodologies are well known for early and frequent releases. Besides, these methodologies also handle requirement changes well without causing delays. However, it has been noticed that the functional requirements changes can affect the non-functional requirements (NFRs) such as security and performance. It is also possible that the agile team is not even aware of these effects causing dysfunctional system. This issue could be addressed by offering traceability mechanism that helps to trace the effect of functional requirement changes on the non-functional requirements. Unfortunately, a few researchers have conducted studies regarding this issue. Thus, this study attempts to present a Traceability Process Model (TPM) to tackle the issue of tracing NFR especially security and performance. However, to materialize a full scale TPM, a metamodel is necessary. Therefore in this paper, we present a metamodel by integrating two existing metamodels. Then we validate the newly built metamodel with precision and recall methods. Lastly, we also develop a traceability tool that is based on the proposed metamodel.