KAOS (software development)

KAOS, is a goal-oriented software requirements capturing approach in requirements engineering. It is a specific Goal modeling method; another is i*. It allows for requirements to be calculated from goal diagrams.^[1] KAOS stands for Knowledge Acquisition in automated specification^[2] or Keep All Objects Satisfied.^[3]

The University of Oregon and the University of Louvain (Belgium) designed the KAOS methodology in 1990.^[4] It is now widely taught worldwide at the university level for capturing software requirements.

External links

• A KAOS Tutorial
• Goal-Oriented Requirements Engineering: An Overview of the Current Research
• Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Goal-Oriented Requirements Engineering Method

References

1. ^ Goal-Oriented Requirements Engineering: An Overview of the Current Research.
2. ^ A. Dardenne, A. van Lamsweerde and S. Fickas. Goal-Directed Requirements Acquisition. Science of Computer Programming, 20(1-2), April 1993.
3. ^ A. van Lamsweerde, E. Letier. From Object Orientation to Goal Orientation: A Paradigm Shift for Requirements Engineering. Proc. Radical Innovations of Software and Systems Engineering, LNCS, 2003.
4. ^ A KAOS Tutorial.