Software Environment Modelling Method

The influence of software environment and its changes on software functions and performance is becoming more and more important. Through literature investigation, this paper studies the concept, composition and characteristics of software environment, and analyzes the relationship between software environment and software requirements. This paper also presents the environment modelling method based on feature model and ontology model, and proposes the procedure and the important steps, together with the differences between the two models. Finally, case studies are given for each model.