Conflict of requirements: a pattern for the treatment of conflicting non-functional requirements
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Emanuel Coutinho, Carla Moreira, Rossana Andrade, José Neuman de SouzaAuthors Info & Claims
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Software development is an activity that works several aspects of Software Engineering. One of them is requirements elicitation and its writing in an understandable notation for software developers. Non-Functional Requirements are those associated to the qualitative aspects of software such as performance, safety and usability. Normally the identification of non-functional requirements is conducted on an adhoc basis, and developed later. In this paper, a pattern is proposed for the treatment (identification and selection) of conflicting non-functional requirements in the early stages of its development, to not harm the quality of the system and also to be more suitable to customer needs.
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