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Context & motivation: A challenge facing military mission planning is how to relate high-level mission objectives down to available human and technical assets. Understanding how changes in requirements affect the objectives, and how requirements can be revised to meet changing objectives, is critical to the design and implementation of mission configurable systems. Question/problem: Whilst current toolsets provide support for static requirements approaches, there is a need for a new approach to meet the dynamic nature of operational mission assurance and configuration. Principal ideas/results: Therefore, we have developed a new mission aware approach based on requirements traceability and metric measurements to enable the propagation of system performance to goal impacts. The approach is delivered through REDEPEND, an i* goal modelling tool, underpinned with a controlled natural language reasoning engine, CEStore. Contribution: We report the approach and provide lessons learned from applying it to a real-world military scenario.
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Lockerbie, J., Maiden, N., Williams, C., Chase, L. (2017). A Requirements Traceability Approach to Support Mission Assurance and Configurability in the Military. In: Grünbacher, P., Perini, A. (eds) Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality. REFSQ 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10153. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54045-0_22
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