Requirements Engineering

Non-Functional Requirements (NFR), as its emergence, is a buzzword that is mostly overused while remaining obscure. There is no consensus on what NFR is, how to identify NFR during software development, and what capabilities a desired NFR modeling approach should deliver. To this end, this paper proposes a process-oriented conceptual framework on NFR. It explicitly distinguishes NFR from applicationindependent domain knowledge, such as quality attributes, tactics, and various constraints, then defines NFR as the composition in specific contexts of domain knowledge and various system abstractions, which include not only the target system, but software models that conceptually define the target system at early stages of software development. Enlightened by the framework, we produce a checklist for NFR identification in the whole development process. We also analyze the methodological implications of our framework and discuss the fundamental capabilities of a desired NFR modeling approach.

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