Requisitos e Arquitetura de Software

Objective: studying requirements as the foundation for developing a software product. The various types of requirements, particularly non-functional requirements (NFRs) and sustainability requirements are the driving pillars for the software architecture design.

To understand:

• The importance of requirements and the fundamentals of Requirements Engineering (RE)
• The main RE activities and techniques and the impact of requirements on software architectures
• The fundamentals for the systematic derivation and specification of software architectures
• A subset of the architectural styles and patterns

To know:

• Dealing with the challenges imposed by the size, conflicting goals and poor real problem descriptions and understanding.
• Understanding the advantages of systematic development and planned reuse.
• Selecting the structure based on a range of possibly disjoint alternatives.

Know how to:

• Apply agile and goal-oriented approaches to identify, specify and validate requirements.
• Identify requirements that contribute to sustainability and the development of sustainable software systems.
• Use techniques to refine sustainability requirements and NFRs, and resolve conflicts.
• Analyze the architectural choices and choose the most adequate to meet the restrictions imposed by the sustainability requirements and NFRs, promoting the systematic derivation of the architecture.
• Specify software architectures using views, patterns, and styles.