Constructing Component-based Systems Directly from Requirements using Incremental Composition 

Kung-Kiu Lau, Azlin Nordin, Tauseef Rana and Faris Taweel
School of Computer Science, The University of Manchester, UK
kung-kiu,anordin,trana,fmt@cs.man.ac.uk

Abstract:

In software engineering, system construction normally starts from a requirements specification that 
has been engineered from raw requirements in a natural language. Such a specification is derived from 
intermediate requirements models such as use case models. These models at best only approximate the 
raw requirements. In this paper we propose a component-based approach that maps raw requirements 
directly into architectures, with a view to maximising the match between the final system and the 
raw requirements. Our approach is based on a component model that supports incremental composition.