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This book offers a thorough introduction to the SPES XT modeling framework, highlighting its applicability in developing embedded systems across various industries and sharing valuable lessons learned. It details how the framework can be customized to suit specific domain and project requirements. The content is organized into four parts: Part I, “Starting Situation,” examines the current state of embedded systems development, focusing on model-based engineering and identifying key challenges from industrial practice. Part II, “Modeling Theory,” presents the SPES XT modeling framework and elucidates its foundational principles. Part III, “Application of the SPES XT Framework,” illustrates how the framework addresses significant industrial challenges through practical applications. Part IV, “Evaluation and Technology Transfer,” evaluates the framework's impact, showcasing exemplary applications in automation, automotive, and avionics sectors. Overall, the SPES XT modeling framework provides a cohesive model-based engineering approach, tackling fundamental challenges in embedded systems engineering. It includes integrated techniques for early validation of engineering artifacts, managing product variants, ensuring modular safety, and deploying embedded software.

This book is designed for self-study and covers the curriculum for the Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering Foundation Level exam as defined by the IREB. The 2nd edition has been thoroughly revised and is aligned with the curriculum Version 2.2 of the IREB. .

Embedded systems are crucial in areas where human control is impractical. However, developing these systems is increasingly complex due to heightened system intricacies, tighter integration, safety demands, real-time requirements, and cost reduction pressures. This book offers a thorough overview of the Software Platform Embedded Systems (SPES) modeling framework, showcasing its relevance across various industries, including automation, automotive, avionics, energy, and healthcare. In SPES 2020, twenty-one academic and industry partners collaborated to create and assess a modeling framework that embodies the latest advancements in embedded systems engineering. The book is organized into four parts: Part I discusses the current state of embedded systems development and model-based engineering, highlighting key challenges across different domains. Part II details the SPES modeling framework itself. Part III outlines the validation processes undertaken to ensure the framework meets the previously identified requirements. Finally, Part IV summarizes the results achieved and suggests directions for future research. This book primarily targets professionals involved in embedded systems development, while also serving as a valuable resource for researchers seeking insights into contemporary requirements and solutions in the field.

Requirements engineering is the process of eliciting individual stakeholder requirements and needs and developing them into detailed, agreed requirements documented and specified in such a way that they can serve as the basis for all other system development activities. In this textbook, Klaus Pohl provides a comprehensive and well-structured introduction to the fundamentals, principles, and techniques of requirements engineering. He presents approved techniques for eliciting, negotiating and documenting as well as validating, and managing requirements for software-intensive systems. The various aspects of the process and the techniques are illustrated using numerous examples based on his extensive teaching experience and his work in industrial collaborations. His presentation aims at professionals, students, and lecturers in systems and software engineering or business applications development. Professionals such as project managers, software architects, systems analysts, and software engineers will benefit in their daily work from the didactically well-presented combination of validated procedures and industrial experience. Students and lecturers will appreciate the comprehensive description of sound fundamentals, principles, and techniques, which is completed by a huge commented list of references for further reading. Lecturers will find additional teaching material on the book’s website, www.requirements-book.com.

I. Software Product Line Engineering Are you interested in producing software products or software-intensive systems at lower costs, in shorter time, and with higher quality? If so, you are holding the right book in your hands. Software product line engineering has proven to be the methodology for Higher quality, lower developing a diversity of software products and software-intensive systems cost, and shorter at lower costs, in shorter time, and with higher quality. Numerous reports development times document the significant achievements and experience gained by introducing software product lines in the software industry. Chapter 21 of this book summarises several cases. Concerning the terminology, there is an almost synonymous use of the terms Software product line “software product family” and “software product line”. Whereas in Europe vs. software product the term software product family is used more often, in North America the family term software product line is used more frequently. This is, among other things, reflected in the names of the two former conference series (the so- ware product line conference series, started in 2000 in the USA, and the product family engineering (PFE) workshop series, started in 1996 in Europe) which were merged in 2004 to form the leading software product line conference (SPLC) series. In this book, we use the term software product line.