Domain Analysis

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Domain Analysis is the first DomainEngineering step. Following GenerativeProgrammingBook, p. 23, the purpose of Domain Analysis is to:

Select and define the domain of focus
Collect the relevant information and integrate it into a coherent domain model.

A Domain model (the output of DomainAnalysis) is [ GenerativeProgrammingBook , p.23]

an explicit representation of the common and the variable properties of the systems in a domain;
the semantics of the properties and domain concpets;
the dependencies between the variable properties.

The domain model consists of:

A survey from 1994 by Arango offers a comparitive study of domain analysis methods:

G. Arango. Domain Analysis Methods. In W. Schaefer, R. Prieto-diaz, and M. Matsumoto (editors), Software Reusability. Ellis Horwood, 1994, pp. 17-49.