Review on Requirements Modeling and Analysis for Self-Adaptive Systems: A Ten-Year Perspective
Context: Over the last decade, software researchers and engineers have developed a vast body of methodologies and technologies in requirements engineering for self-adaptive systems. Although existing studies have explored various aspects of this field, no systematic study has been performed on summa...
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Zusammenfassung: | Context: Over the last decade, software researchers and engineers have
developed a vast body of methodologies and technologies in requirements
engineering for self-adaptive systems. Although existing studies have explored
various aspects of this field, no systematic study has been performed on
summarizing modeling methods and corresponding requirements activities.
Objective: This study summarizes the state-of-the-art research trends, details
the modeling methods and corresponding requirements activities, identifies
relevant quality attributes and application domains and assesses the quality of
each study. Method: We perform a systematic literature review underpinned by a
rigorously established and reviewed protocol. To ensure the quality of the
study, we choose 21 highly regarded publication venues and 8 popular digital
libraries. In addition, we apply text mining to derive search strings and use
Kappa coefficient to mitigate disagreements of researchers. Results: We
selected 109 papers during the period of 2003-2013 and presented the research
distributions over various kinds of factors. We extracted 29 modeling methods
which are classified into 8 categories and identified 14 requirements
activities which are classified into 4 requirements timelines. We captured 8
concerned software quality attributes based on the ISO 9126 standard and 12
application domains. Conclusion: The frequency of application of modeling
methods varies greatly. Enterprise models were more widely used while behavior
models were more rigorously evaluated. Requirements-driven runtime adaptation
was the most frequently studied requirements activity. Activities at runtime
were conveyed with more details. Finally, we draw other conclusions by
discussing how well modeling dimensions were considered in these modeling
methods and how well assurance dimensions were conveyed in requirements
activities. |
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DOI: | 10.48550/arxiv.1704.00421 |