Business Requirements Engineering for Developing Cloud Computing Services, Springer, Software Engineering Frameworks for Cloud Computing Paradigm

Cloud computing is an emerging paradigm that is becoming rapidly popular with business organisations. The software-as-a-service (SaaS) delivery approach is increasing in demand for yet more cloud-based services. However, this new trend needs to be more systematic with respect to software engineering (design and development) and its related processes. In this case, a valid question is: How do we change our existing user-based requirements capturing methodologies to a suitable service-based business requirements engineering? In this chapter, we present an approach to cloud requirements engineering that is based on business-oriented analysis as this is the key to a successful cloud service. This chapter explores the new requirements engineering process and relevant techniques for capturing cloud-based services. The process and techniques have been explained using a large-scale case study based on Amazon Cloud EC2.

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