OTM 2009 - LNCS 5870-5872 CD-ROM

A Model Transformation Approach to Derive Architectural Models from Goal-Oriented Requirements Models

Marcia Lucena^1,2, Jaelson Castro¹, Carla Silva³, Fernanda Alencar¹, Emanuel Santos¹, and João Pimentel¹

¹Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE) Recife/PE, Brazil
mjnrl@cin.ufpe.br
jbc@cin.ufpe.br
fmra@ufpe.br
ebs@cin.ufpe.br
jhcp@cin.ufpe.br

²Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN) Natal/RN, Brazil

³Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB) Rio Tinto/PB, Brazil
ctaciana@ccae.ufpb.br

Abstract. Requirements engineering and architectural design are key activities for successful development of software systems. Both activities are strongly intertwined and interrelated, but many steps toward generating architecture models from requirements models are driven by intuition and architectural knowledge. Thus, systematic approaches that integrate requirements engineering and architectural design activities are needed. This paper presents an approach based on model transformations to generate architectural models from requirements models. The source and target languages are respectively the i* modeling language and Acme architectural description language (ADL). A real web-based recommendation system is used as case study to illustrate our approach.

Keywords: Requirements engineering, Architectural design, Models Transformation

LNCS 5872, p. 370 ff.

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