Advanced requirements engineering workstation

Since 1985, Rome Laboratory (RL) has been evolving a Requirements Engineering Testbed (RET) to host and evaluate C3I system and software requirements tools and techniques. The RET concept will house various tools and environments which provides a common user interface and object-oriented database for the easy manipulation of information. RET currently consists of the Requirements Engineering Environment (REE) which is an integrated toolset of requirements analysis and prototyping tools. The analysis and prototyping capabilities provided by the environment will be enhanced by incorporating the existing RL Knowledge Based Requirements Assistant (KBRA) tool functionality, which includes a frame-based representation language, multiple presentations, nonfunctional requirements capture and an intelligent notepad editor, into the REE. The resulting Advanced Requirements Engineering Workstation (AREW) will also be extended by incorporating metric capabilities and enhancing the existing REE methodology to provide guidelines for users performing requirements analysis activities using knowledge based techniques. The approach is influenced by the need to make progress in integrating the KBRA technology, while preserving robustness, performance, and REE functionality such as rapid prototyping and dynamic modeling. AREW is concerned with evolving long term requirements elicitation and analysis capabilities to more fully utilize knowledge based, expert system technology