Semantic Integration of System Specifications to Support Different System Engineering Disciplines

The assurance of high quality requirements and system specifications takes a huge effort and requires semantically integrated requirements. Especially when using different representations of requirements, the semantic integration is quite difficult. Today’s requirements management tools integrate requirements only syntactically and, thereby, provide only limited features to support the requirements analyst during quality assurance. The following paper describes a concept for the semantic integration of requirements documented in different representations into one common model. This model allows analysing and measuring the quality of the integrated requirements by applying algorithms. The mentioned integration concept is applied to a use case driven requirements elicitation and analysis process using different representations like several UML diagrams or even template based textual requirements. The foundation to measure the quality of the integrated requirements is explained.