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KAOS (software development)

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. KAOS stands for Knowledge Acquisition in automated specification or Keep All Objectives Satisfied.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.

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

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

References

References

  1. [http://www.cs.utoronto.ca/~alexei/pub/Lapouchnian-Depth.pdf 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. [http://www.objectiver.com/fileadmin/download/documents/KaosTutorial.pdf A KAOS Tutorial].
  4. List of universities teaching KAOS include [[Michigan State University. Michigan State]] ([http://www.cse.msu.edu/~cse870/Lectures/Notes/02c-kaos-goal-modeling-bhc-v3-notes.pdf lectures]), [[Pace University. Pace]] ([http://csis.pace.edu/~marchese/CS775/Lectures/775L6b.ppt lectures]), [[Université catholique de Louvain. Louvain]] ([https://www.cs.scranton.edu/~mccloske/courses/se507/vanLams_kaos_presentation.pdf lectures]), [[University of Coimbra. Coimbra]] and others.
  5. "Is KAOS goal modeling used in the industry?".
  6. "Respect-IT technology".
  7. "Objectiver releases".
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