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Xavier Franch
Dept. Llenguatges i Sistemes Informàtics
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
c/Jordi Girona 1-3, 08034 Barcelona Catalonia (Spain)
Tel: (34) 3 4016965
Fax: (34) 3 4017014
Email: franch@lsi.upc.es
Software systems are characterised both by their functionality (what the system
does) and by their non-functionality (how does the system behave with respect to
some observable attributes like performance, reusability, reliability, etc.). Both
aspects are relevant to software development. However, non-functional issues have
received little attention compared to functional ones. In this position paper we
highlight the role of non-functionality, and we claim to have defined a notation to deal with
them. We enumerate some design principles for such a notation, and then we make
a proposal, which allows to define non-functional attributes of software,
non-functional behaviour of components with respect to these attributes, and also
non-functional requirements over implementations.
Keywords: Component, Non-Functional Attribute, Non-Functional Behaviour,
Non-Functional Requirements.
Workshop Goals: learning; to highlight a particular problem not always perceived
as such; to propose a concrete notation to deal with this problem; to receive
feedback from the component programming community.
Xavier Franch