Abstract
Computational reflection is a well-established technique that gives a program the ability to dynamically observe and possibly modify its behaviour. To date, however, reflection is mainly applied either to the software architecture or its implementation. We know of no approach that fully supports requirements reflection- that is, making requirements available as runtime objects. Although there is a body of literature on requirements monitoring, such work typically generates runtime artefacts from requirements and so the requirements themselves are not directly accessible at runtime. In this paper, we define requirements reflection and a set of research challenges. Requirements reflection is important because software systems of the future will be self-managing and will need to adapt continuously to changing environmental conditions. We argue requirements reflection can support such self-adaptive systems by making requirements first-class runtime entities, thus endowing software systems with the ability to reason about, understand, explain and modify requirements at runtime.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | ICSE '10 Proceedings of the 32nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering - Volume 2 |
Place of Publication | New York, NY (US) |
Publisher | ACM |
Pages | 199-202 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Volume | 2 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-1-60558-719-6 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - May 2010 |
Event | 32nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE '10 - Cape Town, South Africa Duration: 1 May 2010 → 8 May 2010 |
Conference
Conference | 32nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE '10 |
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Country/Territory | South Africa |
City | Cape Town |
Period | 1/05/10 → 8/05/10 |