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KAOS (software development)

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KAOS is a goal-oriented requirements engineering capturing approach. It allows for requirements to be calculated from goal diagrams. KAOS stands for Knowledge Acquisition in automated specification[1] or Keep All Objects Satisfied[2].

The University of Oregon and the University of Louvain (Belgium) designed the KAOS methodology in 1990. It is now widely taught worldwide at the university level and is a software industry de-facto standard for capturing software requirements.


References

  1. ^ A. Dardenne, A. van Lamsweerde and S. Fickas. Goal-Directed Requirements Acquisition. Science of Computer Programming, 20(1-2), April 1993.
  2. ^ 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.