An architecture-oriented model-driven requirements engineering approach

Software development processes have become highly complex with the increase in the complexity of software systems and their architectures. It is widely recognized that requirements engineering (RE) is a critical part of this process, along with the design of a system´s software architecture with which to satisfy requirements. In this paper, we aim to provide a methodological approach for Architecture-oriented Model-Driven Requirements Engineering. We believe that considering architectural aspects for modeling requirements in a model-driven approach will provide software developers with several benefits such as an improvement in traceability, better architecture and implementation coherence. This paper presents the definition of a process which is based on the OpenUP method, including its activities, roles, and work products. We also provide an example of the use of this approach in a SOA-based software development project.