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International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality

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Exploring the Characteristics of NFR Methods – A Dialogue About Two Approaches

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It is not easy to choose a method for eliciting, detailing and documenting non-functional requirements (NFR) among the variety of existing methods. In order to explore typical characteristics of such methods, we compare two approaches which specify NFR: MOQARE and the IESE-NFR-method. Both aim at deriving detailed requirements from quality attributes, but use different concepts and processes. Our analysis led to ideas for incremental improvement of each method and also to deeper insight into NFR methods.

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  1. Institut für Informatik, Neuenheimer Feld 326, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany

    Andrea Herrmann

  2. Fraunhofer-Institut Experimentelles Software Engineering, Fraunhofer-Platz 1, 67661 Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Daniel Kerkow & Joerg Doerr

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Herrmann, A., Kerkow, D., Doerr, J. (2007). Exploring the Characteristics of NFR Methods – A Dialogue About Two Approaches. In: Sawyer, P., Paech, B., Heymans, P. (eds) Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality. REFSQ 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4542. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73031-6_24

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