From requirements to software architecture: a feature-oriented mapping approach

Requirements engineering and software architecting are two key activities in software life cycle. Researchers have paid much attention to the mapping and transformation from requirements to software architecture, but there's still lack of effective solutions. In this paper, we analyze the inadequacy of traditional mapping solutions for this challenge (such as solutions adopted in structured method and OO method), and further propose a feature-oriented mapping approach. The rationale and guidelines for this approach are presented, and the approach is illustrated by an example of bank account and transaction (BAT) system.