Authors:
Estrela Ferreira Cruz
1
;
Ricardo J. Machado
2
and
Maribel Yasmina Santos
2
Affiliations:
1
Instituto Politecnico de Viana do Castelo and Universidade do Minho, Portugal
;
2
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Keyword(s):
Business Process Modeling, BPMN, Use Case Model, UML, Requirements Elicitation.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
;
Model Driven Architectures and Engineering
;
Requirements Analysis And Management
;
Software Engineering
;
Tools, Techniques and Methodologies for System Development
Abstract:
A business process model identifies the activities, resources and data involved in the creation of a product or
service, having lots of useful information for starting to develop a supporting software system. With regard to
software development, one of the most difficult and crucial activities is the identification of system functional
requirements. A popular way to capture and describe those requirements is through UML use case models.
Usually an organization deals with several business processes. As a consequence, a software product does
not usually support only one business process, but rather a set of business processes. This paper presents an
approach that allows aggregating in one use case model all the information that can be extracted from the
set of business process models that will be supported by the software under development. The generated use
case model serves as a basis for the software development process, helping reducing time and effort spent in
requirements elicita
tion. The approach also helps to ensure the alignment between business and software, and
enables traceability between business processes and the corresponding elements in software models.
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