Industrial information integration—A literature review 2006–2015

The difficulties of software quality evaluation found during our activity in different projects and publications led us to investigate a systematic method for building domain-oriented quality models based on a sound empirical basis. General quality models need to be adapted to specific types of software products to be effective. Related literature reveals that existing quality models tend to suffer from poor empirical support. To overcome this situation, a review of applicable existing standards and related literature has enabled the generation of a basis for software quality models which can be adapted to specific application domains. The process, called DUMOD (Domain-oriented qUality MOdels Development), includes the collection of experts' opinions and the application of multivariate analysis techniques in order to eliminate redundant information and construct a validated model, more efficient and reliable. In this study, the empirical method to devise quality models for specific application domains is presented, as well as its application to a case study for security software products empirically validated by extensive collection of data from IT professionals.

Empirical support for the generation of domain-oriented quality models

The Requirements Engineering (RE) discipline is where the software system needs or requirements are captured; these are then "translated" into software components. At present, functional requirements are treated, but non-functional requirements (NFR) are neglected, causing problems at later stages of development. In an industrial software production context, product quality must be considered, and the Domain Analysis discipline within RE, proposes different approaches to treat NFR for building a Reference Architecture (RA) from which all products of a domain family can be generated. Consequently, the same process is adapted to different contexts and abstraction levels. This paper proposes a Unified Process for Domain Analysis (UPDA), based on Aspect and Goal orientations to deal with NFR, specified by quality standards to enhance communication. UPDA integrates techniques that are separately used: - the Chung and others extended process of Losavio and others, based on the NFR Framework with treatment of crosscutting concerns, and - the ISO/IEC 25010 quality standard to specify NFR. Three sub-processes constitute UPDA: - Construction of the quality model, - Identification of crosscutting concerns and - RA design. The main artifact obtained is the RA, which can be reused as an asset in the context of software product lines.

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Unified Process for Domain Analysis integrating Quality, Aspects and Goals

In the Domain Engineering (DE) discipline, different approaches are used for one purpose, the treatment of non-functional requirements (NFR) to build a reference architecture (RA), or generic architecture from which all product members of a family of a domain, are generated. Consequently, the same process is adapted to different contexts and abstraction levels. This paper proposes a Unified Domain Analysis Process (UDAP) of DE, which uses Aspect and Goal orientations and the specification of NFR by quality standards. This process integrates the following specific techniques: - extended process of Chung and others, based on the NFR Framework with treatment of crosscutting concerns of Losavio and others - ISO/ IEC 25010 quality standard to specify NFR. The proposed process obtains the RA as the main artifact and can be reused as an asset in the context of software product lines.

Domain analysis Unified Process integrating quality standards, Aspect and Goal orientations

Web Services (WS) are an alternative to the lack of interoperability of applications, to facilitate integration via Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). The main goal of this paper is to establish a correspondence between three WS-related standards, WSA (Web Services Architecture) representing industrial and marketing requirements, ISO/IEC 9126-1 quality model to specify standard quality requirements, and ISO/IEC 13236 to specify the measurement model for WS-based applications. A domain analysis process is defined to provide guidelines to integrate the information of the three standards, facilitating the automatic generation of standardized quality of service contracts between clients and providers.

R. Rahamut

Papers

Web Services Domain Analysis Based on Quality Standards