ACHIEVING REQUIREMENTS REUSE - A DOMAIN-SPECIFIC APPROACH FROM AVIONICS

The reuse of requirements has received little attention in the literat ure, especially in relation to genuine industrial experience. This pap er describes the efforts being made to promote the reuse of requiremen ts for engine control systems at Rolls-Smith Engine Controls Limited ( RoSEC). Our approach is based on existing domain analysis techniques, and we relate our experience of applying these techniques to develop a core set of generic requirements. A forms-based tool that we have pro totyped which supports the reuse of requirements during the developmen t of new systems is also presented, and is compared with existing reus e tools. The paper concludes with a discussion on the possible impact of this work on RoSEC's current requirements engineering process. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science Inc.