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Specifying functional requirements brings many difficulties namely when regarding the cloud services. During the analysis phase, the alignment between the process-level requirements (information systems) with the product-level requirements (service-based software) may not be properly achieved or even understood. In this chapter, we describe an approach that supports the creation of the intended requirements, beginning in a process-level and evolving to a product-level perspective, to elicit requirements for specifying services that execute in a cloud computing environment. The transition between perspectives are supported by UML model transformations, encompassing a set of transition rules using QVT, from one perspective to the other, in order to assure that process- and product-level requirements are aligned.
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Santos, N., Ferreira, N., Machado, R.J. (2017). Transition from Information Systems to Service-Oriented Logical Architectures: Formalizing Steps and Rules with QVT. In: Ramachandran, M., Mahmood, Z. (eds) Requirements Engineering for Service and Cloud Computing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51310-2_11
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