Model-Based Requirements Analysis with AutoRAID

While software systems are increasingly developed by using model-based techniques, requirements engineering is most still performed text-based. Requirements are generally structured using text-patterns or linked outlines; as a consequence, only an indirect, weakly structured transition to design is possible. Model-based requirements engineering offers a solution to bridge this gap. Essential characteristics of model-based requirements engineering are a structured and integrated requirements model just as well as an effective, toolbased support for refinement and structuring from textual requirements to the design model.