On Agent-Oriented Requirements Engineering for COTS-Based Software Development (CBSD)

Author

Ibrahim, Hamdy ; Far, Behrouz H. ; Eberlein, Armin

Author_Institution

Univ. of Calgary, Calgary

fYear

2007

fDate

22-26 April 2007

Firstpage

690

Lastpage

693

Abstract

COTS-based software development (CBSD) is a promising development paradigm used to speedup the software development process, decrease the cost and development effort, and improve the quality of the final software product. This paper reviews various research efforts within the CBSD field for the purpose of better understanding the overall CBSD development process. It also identifies the current challenges associated with the requirements engineering (RE) process for this paradigm. The paper discusses the benefits of adopting software agents in the field of requirements engineering for CBSD. Finally, a wish-list of desirable features of an agent-oriented approach used to address RE challenges for CBSD is proposed.

Keywords

software agents; software engineering; COTS-based software development; agent-oriented requirements engineering; requirements engineering process; software agents; software product; Application software; Costs; Drives; Iterative methods; Job production systems; Programming; Software agents; Software measurement; Software quality; Software systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2007. CCECE 2007. Canadian Conference on

Conference_Location

Vancouver, BC

ISSN

0840-7789

Print_ISBN

1-4244-1020-7

Electronic_ISBN

0840-7789

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCECE.2007.177

Filename

4232836