COVER: Change-based Goal Verifier and Reasoner

COVER is a unified framework that supports the interplay between requirements analysts and software developers. It contracts a bridge between the requirements analyst’s and the software developer’s artifacts by enabling goal model analysis during software design. The goal model produced by the requirements analyst is kept alive and updated while the system is designed. Whenever the design of the system changes, COVER verifies the new design against the requirements of interest. The verification results are used to trigger a goal model analysis procedure. The results of this analysis can be used by the requirements analyst and the software developer to update the goal model or the design of the system. In this paper, we present the tool support developed for COVER.