UAF Motivation Views

The UAF 1.2 Motivation and Requirements Views offer a structured framework for capturing and managing the full spectrum of requirements within an architecture. These viewpoints focus on providing a unified reference for stakeholder needs, representing how various requirements relate to each other and to the architectural solutions that address them. They allow architects to document requirements with their key properties and establish critical relationships, including traceability links that connect high-level stakeholder needs to detailed technical requirements, verification links that show how requirements will be validated, satisfaction links tying requirements to architectural elements, and refinement links that break broad requirements into more specific ones. This approach ensures that every architectural element can be traced back to its originating stakeholder need and supports clear pathways for verification and validation throughout the architectural development process.

Motivation Requirements Rq-Mv

Stakeholders: Requirement Engineers, Solution Providers, Systems Engineers, Software Engineers, Systems Architects, Business Architects.

Concerns: Provides a central reference for a set of stakeholder needs expressed as requirements, their relationship (via traceability) to more detailed requirements and the solution described by the architecture that will meet those requirements.

Definition: Used to represent requirements, their properties, and relationships (trace, verify, satisfy, refine) between each other and to UAF architectural elements.