“ Supporting Model - Driven Development : Key Concepts and Support Approaches ” – Rita Suzana

In the last six decades, many advanced software engineering approaches, techniques, and tools have been introduced to solve various problems related to the development and maintenance of complex large-scale software systems. Some of these advancements have been applied to practice with various degrees of success, including the acceptance of some methods and tools as de facto technologies by software industries. For example, with the introduction of the advanced CASE tools, developers are able to reduce the time to market and minimise the errors made during the software development stage. Software systems play a major role in contemporary society and penetrate almost all aspects of modern life, ranging from social network systems to safety-critical systems. Although many advancements have been made in software engineering, there are emerging challenges in software engineering due to the increasing complexity of user requirements and operating environments. The produced software is sometimes unable to fulfill user requirements, delivered late or delivered at an unacceptable quality, and unable to cope with requirement changes after certain periods of time. This book highlights some significant research on emerging advancements and technologies in software engineering. The aim of this book is to present some of the advances in software engineering research and practice. In Section 1, the authors discuss several topics related to software requirements. Understanding the software requirements is an important task in identifying the correct requirements for a large and complex software system. Section 1 discusses the issues and new approaches in requirements engineering, which is one of the important topics in software engineering. The authors share their experiences obtained from real-life projects: