Supporting Co-Evolving Architectural Requirements and Design through Traceability and Reasoning

Requirements and architectural design specif cations can be conf icting and inconsistent, especially during the design period when requirements and architectural design are co-evolving. One reason is that stakeholders do not have up-todate knowledge of each other’s work to fully understand potential conf icts and inconsistencies. Specif cations are often documented in a natural language, which also makes it diff cult for tracing related information automatically. In this chapter, we introduce a general-purpose ontology that we have developed to address this problem. We demonstrate an implementation of semantic wiki that supports traceability of co-evolving requirements specif cations and architecture design.