TY - GEN
T1 - A meta-model for the assessment of non-functional requirement size
AU - Kassab, M.
AU - Daneva, M.
AU - Ormandjieva, O.
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Non-functional requirements (NFRs) pose unique challenges in estimating the effort it would take to implement them. This is mainly because of their unique nature; NFRs are subjective, relative, interactive and tending to have a broad impact on the system as a whole. Nevertheless, it is crucial, when making decisions about the scope of software by given resources and budget, to furnish a justifying and quantitative analysis based on both Functional Requirements (FRs) and NFRs. This paper presents a meta-model which complements the FR dimension with the NFRs as another dimension to be used in effort estimation approaches. The meta-model is deployed to extend the use of the COSMIC functional size measurement method to measure the size of NFRs, as effort is a function of size. We report on a case study to demonstrate our approach in context.
AB - Non-functional requirements (NFRs) pose unique challenges in estimating the effort it would take to implement them. This is mainly because of their unique nature; NFRs are subjective, relative, interactive and tending to have a broad impact on the system as a whole. Nevertheless, it is crucial, when making decisions about the scope of software by given resources and budget, to furnish a justifying and quantitative analysis based on both Functional Requirements (FRs) and NFRs. This paper presents a meta-model which complements the FR dimension with the NFRs as another dimension to be used in effort estimation approaches. The meta-model is deployed to extend the use of the COSMIC functional size measurement method to measure the size of NFRs, as effort is a function of size. We report on a case study to demonstrate our approach in context.
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U2 - 10.1109/SEAA.2008.58
DO - 10.1109/SEAA.2008.58
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:60349089658
SN - 9780769532769
T3 - EUROMICRO 2008 - Proceedings of the 34th EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications, SEAA 2008
SP - 411
EP - 418
BT - EUROMICRO 2008 - Proceedings of the 34th EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications, SEAA 2008
T2 - EUROMICRO 2008 - Proceedings of the 34th EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications, SEAA 2008
Y2 - 3 September 2008 through 5 September 2008
ER -