Requirements definition and its interface to the SARA design methodology for computer-based systems
J. W. Winchester, Gerald Estrin · 1982
This paper presents results of efforts during 1979--1981 to integrate and enhance the work of the System ARchitects Apprentice (SARA) Project at UCLA and the Information System Design Optimization System (ISDOS) Project at the University of Michigan. While expressing a need for a requirements definition subsystem, SARA had no appropriate requirements definition language, no defined set of requirements analysis techniques or tools, and no procedures to form a more cohesive methodology for linking computer system requirements to the ensuing design. Research has been performed to fill this requirements subsystem gap, using concepts derived from the ISDOS project as a basis for departure.