The aspect-oriented programming has valuable advantages over other programming paradigms, but in turn it presents difficulties when applying the concepts within the stages of analysis and development to reduce the drawbacks ...

Security requirements are known to be “the most difficult of requirements types” and potentially the ones causing the greatest risk if they are not correct. One approach to requirements elicitation is based on the reuse ...

Cloud computing is a business paradigm, where cloud providers offer resources (e.g., storage, computing, network) and cloud consumers use them after accepting a specific service level agreement. Cloud requirements can ...

Cloud computing is a business paradigm that changes the way to eval- uate information systems and computing resources. Cloud requirements can rapidly change and new service capabilities are often requested in order to adapt ...

Nowadays, modern software development processes follow an iterative approach, which makes possible to start the testing of a system at early stages. This approach requires recording the requirements artifacts that specify ...

Currently, the software industry requires high quality products and services, which is achieved through the application of internationally recognized quality models and methods. However, these models in SMEs are very ...

Nowadays consumers are demanding products richer in technologies and associated services. That is why the link between disciplines, such as Engineering Design and Mechatronics, gets stronger each day, especially, due to ...