Computer and Information Sciences – ISCIS 2006 // Requirements Engineering as a Key to Holistic Software Quality Manfred

Abstract

Adequate software functionality and quality is a crucial issue in a society that vitally depends on software systems. The rising expectations of software users, the distribution of software over networks, size and complexity of today's software systems bring our engineering abilities to limits. Functionality, the cost and the quality of software critically depend on an adequate requirements engineering. We argue in favor of systematic requirements engineering that is model-based, targeting comprehensive system architectures and deeply integrated into software life cycle models.