Authors:
Pedro Valente
and
Paulo N. M. Sampaio
Affiliation:
Distributed Systems and Networks Lab. (Lab-SDR), University of Madeira (UMa), Portugal
Keyword(s):
Business Process Management, Software Engineering, UML, Use Case, Goals, Process Use Cases.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
;
Business Process Management
;
e-Business
;
Enterprise Engineering
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
;
Knowledge Management and Information Sharing
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Methodologies, Processes and Platforms
;
Model-Driven Software Development
;
Requirements Analysis And Management
;
Software Engineering
;
Symbolic Systems
;
Systems Engineering
Abstract:
The identification of use cases is one key issue in the development of interactive information systems. User participation in the development life cycle can be seen as critical to achieve usable systems and has proven its efficacy in the improvement of systems appropriateness. Indeed, the involvement of users in the requirements definition can add a significant improvement in both consecutive/interleaved tasks of: (i) understanding and specifying the context of use, and, (ii) specifying the user and organizational requirements, as defined in
Human-Centered Design (HCD) (Organizations, 1999). Existing solutions provide a way to identify business processes and/or use cases in order to achieve system definition, but they don’t do it in an agile and structured way that helps to efficiently bridge between Business Process Management and Software Engineering. Process Use Cases is a methodology, defined in the Goals software construction process, for the identification of use cases and in
formation entities during the modeling and reorganization of business processes focusing the results in the identification of the functional requirements for the correct development of an interactive information system.
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