Semantic Software Capability Profile Based on Enterprise Architecture for Software Reuse

Requirements engineering and enterprise architecture-based software discovery and reuse

“…From the state-of-the-art on service-oriented software reuse, we analyzed that currently ad-hoc methods are still used to identify the most suitable serviceoriented software or artifacts to reuse, and a methodology or standardized process enabling this is still missing. Moreover, the description, the capability, or qualification of this software are lacking wider view qualification taking into consideration the business, operational and technical views of the software and their related services [5]. In addition, no solution has been provided to fit the requirements engineering along with the impact of architecture on requirements when dealing with the identification of the most suitable components and avoiding the misevaluation during the selection phase.…”

“…To bring the value-in-use of existing software and facilitate the discovery and reuse, we present in this section the meta-model of the Software Capability Profile (see Figure 1) and its related EACP Ontology that is presented in detail in [5] and depicted in Figure 2. The meta-model is inspired mainly from TO-GAF [6], ISO 16100 [55], Microsoft Application Architecture Guide [56] and ISO 25010 [57].…”

“…With reference to this context, this research is an extended work of an already published work in [5]. The latter was focused on the design of a software capability profile implemented as a semantic model to gather description of the capabilities of existing solutions from several perspectives (organizational, business, technical and technological aspects).…”

“…The latter was focused on the design of a software capability profile implemented as a semantic model to gather description of the capabilities of existing solutions from several perspectives (organizational, business, technical and technological aspects). For the sake of readability, the proposed model and contributions published in [5] are presented in the following sections, as well as the new contributions related to the exploitation of the capability profiles through the alignment of a requirements engineering approach and an enterprise architecture method. As discussed earlier, the objective of this research work is to leverage the model already published in [5] to address stakeholder requirements and efficiently reuse existing solutions, by investigating the highest functional and non-functional compatibility of existing software capability profiles with stakeholder's desired features to be implemented.…”

“…For the sake of readability, the proposed model and contributions published in [5] are presented in the following sections, as well as the new contributions related to the exploitation of the capability profiles through the alignment of a requirements engineering approach and an enterprise architecture method. As discussed earlier, the objective of this research work is to leverage the model already published in [5] to address stakeholder requirements and efficiently reuse existing solutions, by investigating the highest functional and non-functional compatibility of existing software capability profiles with stakeholder's desired features to be implemented. The expected result from this work is an exploitation process of the software capability profiles, based on the Architecture Development Method from TOGAF [6], aligned to a requirements engineering approach implemented using Volere Specification [1].…”