A REVISED MODELLING QUALITY FRAMEWORK

Pieter Joubert, Stefanie Louw, Carina De Villiers, Jan Kroeze

2009

Abstract

Systems modelling quality plays a critical role in the quality of the final system. Better quality systems are one aspect of addressing system failures which are still common today. This research paper studies quality frameworks for systems modelling techniques, presenting a revised framework. Several authors built their frameworks on the Lindland et al. (1994) conceptual model quality framework. Those frameworks are more abstract and static – they do not clearly illustrate the flow of information through the systems modelling process. The proposed framework makes it much easier to identify which quality aspects have to be in place at which points within the modelling process for it to be successful in its purpose. In addition, it creates awareness on issues such as the kind of skills and background knowledge that people, who are involved in this process, need to have.

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in Harvard Style

Joubert P., Louw S., De Villiers C. and Kroeze J. (2009). A REVISED MODELLING QUALITY FRAMEWORK . In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8111-86-9, pages 162-167. DOI: 10.5220/0001991001620167


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis09,
author={Pieter Joubert and Stefanie Louw and Carina De Villiers and Jan Kroeze},
title={A REVISED MODELLING QUALITY FRAMEWORK},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,},
year={2009},
pages={162-167},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001991001620167},
isbn={978-989-8111-86-9},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,
TI - A REVISED MODELLING QUALITY FRAMEWORK
SN - 978-989-8111-86-9
AU - Joubert P.
AU - Louw S.
AU - De Villiers C.
AU - Kroeze J.
PY - 2009
SP - 162
EP - 167
DO - 10.5220/0001991001620167