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标题：Recovering Software Design from Interviews Using the NFR Approach: An Experience Report
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作者：Nary Subramanian ; Steven Drager ; William McKeever 等
期刊名称：Advances in Software Engineering
印刷版ISSN：1687-8655
电子版ISSN：1687-8663
出版年度：2014
卷号：2014
DOI：10.1155/2014/124701
出版社：Hindawi Publishing Corporation
摘要：In the US Air Force there exist several systems for which design documentation does not exist. Chief reasons for this lack of system documentation include software having been developed several decades ago, natural evolution of software, and software existing mostly in its binary versions. However, the systems are still being used and the US Air Force would like to know the actual designs for the systems so that they may be reengineered for future requirements. Any knowledge of such systems lies mostly with its users and managers. A project was commissioned to recover designs for such systems based on knowledge of systems obtained from stakeholders by interviewing them. In this paper we describe our application of the NFR Approach, where NFR stands for Nonfunctional Requirements, to recover software design of a middleware system used by the Air Force called the Phoenix system. In our project we interviewed stakeholders of the Phoenix system, applied the NFR Approach to recover design artifacts, and validated the artifacts with the design engineers of the Phoenix system. Our study indicated that there was a high correlation between the recovered design and the actual design of the Phoenix system.