Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
Validating software requirements with enactable use case descriptions. |
| Authors: |
Kanyaru, John Mathenge1 jkanyaru@bournemouth.ac.uk, Phalp, Keith1 kphalp@bournemouth.ac.uk |
| Source: |
Requirements Engineering. Feb2009, Vol. 14 Issue 1, p1-14. 14p. 3 Color Photographs, 6 Diagrams, 8 Charts. |
| Subjects: |
Use cases (Systems engineering), Software validation, Unified modeling language, Object Management Group Inc., Systems engineering, Requirements engineering |
| Abstract: |
Use cases have gained wide acceptance since the standardisation of the UML by the Object Management Group in 1997. This paper addresses the inadequacy of use cases for expressing intra-use case and inter-use case dependencies. We present a state-based approach for facilitating explicit consideration of such dependencies in use case descriptions, and a support tool is described, which provides enaction of the state-based use cases to support validation. We outline an industrial study involving the specification of real-time monitoring systems, wherein we demonstrate that enaction of the state-based use cases highlighted important dependency issues that had not been revealed within standard use cases. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| Database: |
Engineering Source |
