Context-Based Aspect-Oriented Requirement Engineering Model
Received: 21 January 2023 | Revised: 6 February 2023 | Accepted: 8 February 2023 | Online: 4 March 2023
Corresponding author: Sonali R. Idate
Abstract
Mobile applications are context-oriented systems that involve the use of context information while operating. Mobile applications demand tackling context information in the early phase of software engineering. A context-aware system demands a different approach to handling the influence of the context on a system's requirements. Aspect-oriented Requirement Engineering separates concerns throughout requirements, called crosscutting concerns, in the early phase of software development to improve the modularity of complex applications. Capturing requirements embedded within context is a challenging procedure. This study aimed to identify such contextual characteristics of requirements in the early phase of software engineering, using natural language processing techniques, by proposing Context-Based Aspect-Oriented Requirement Engineering (CB-AORE) to visualize the existence of crosscutting concerns. CB-AORE performs context modeling to analyze the context dependency with base requirements and helps the analyst to visualize the correlation of functional and non-functional requirements with context. A case study analyzed the identification of context and its use to identify crosscutting concerns.
Keywords:
context, context-aware system, crosscutting concern, aspect, aspect-oriented requirement engineeringDownloads
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