Catálogo de requisitos de calmness para aplicações ubíquas e de internet das coisas

Abstract

New non-functional requirements (RNFs) appeared with the arrival of Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp) and the Internet of Things (IoT). Calmness is one of those RNFs, which means, in general, the ability to prevent users from feeling overwhelmed with system information. This feature has not been cataloged for its sub-characteristic and solutions, which makes its use in software projects a more challenging task. Considering the Softgoal Interdependence Graph (SIG), which is a known format for cataloging RNFs, this work aims to capture subcharacteristics and solutions for Calmness and catalog them in a SIG. An existing approach was used to catalog the RNF, using well-defined research methods: snowballing and grounded theory. As a final result, we obtained a Calmness SIG composed of two main sub-characteristics and thirteen sub-characteristics. This knowledge can be useful to support software engineers in specifying requirements and practical solutions for UbiComp and IoT applications that consider Calmness as an RNF.