Software:KAOS (software development)

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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 Objectives Satisfied.[3]

The University of Oregon and the University of Louvain (Belgium) designed the KAOS methodology in 1990 by Axel van Lamsweerde and others.[4] It is taught worldwide at the university level[5] for capturing software requirements.

There is lack of evidence that KAOS is used in the industry[6] and as of February 2023, the only tool supporting it is Objectiver, written by the same group[7] behind the KAOS methodology, with the latest release 3.0c47 dated at March 9th, 2012.[8]

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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.
  5. List of universities teaching KAOS include Michigan State (lectures), Pace (lectures), Louvain (lectures), Coimbra and others.
  6. "Is KAOS goal modeling used in the industry?". https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/443783/is-kaos-goal-modeling-used-in-the-industry. 
  7. "Respect-IT technology". https://objectiver.com/index.php?id=81. 
  8. "Objectiver releases". https://objectiver.com/index.php?id=4.