A Design Method for Domain-Specific Models of Software Requirements Specification Based on Stakeholders' Concerns

In order to appropriately define and share the requirements among stakeholders involved in software development, a model of Software Requirements Specification (SRS), which defines requirement items and their organization, is required. There exist a number of models of SRS such as the one proposed by ISO 29148. However, they are generic and not enough to represent domain-specific requirements. In this paper, we propose a systematic method to design domain-specific models of SRS by extending the existing models of SRS with requirement items for domain-specific requirements. The proposed method derives domain-specific requirement items that should be added to the reference model from the stakeholder concerns about the domain characteristics. We apply the proposed method to the automotive software domain and evaluate its effectiveness.