a business process-driven approach for requirements dependency analysis

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	a business process-driven approach for requirements dependency analysis
	Li Juan; Jeffery Ross; Fung Kam Hay; Zhu Liming; Wang Qing; Zhang He; Xu Xiwei
	2012
会议名称	10th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2012
会议录名称	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
页码	200-215
会议日期	September 3, 2012 - September 6, 2012
会议地点	Tallinn, Estonia
收录类别	EI
ISSN	0302-9743
ISBN	9783642328848
部门归属	(1) Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences China; (2) National ICT Australia Australia; (3) School of Computer Science and Engineering University of New South Wales Australia; (4) School of Information Systems Technology and Management University of New South Wales Australia
摘要	Dependencies among software artifacts are very useful for various software development and maintenance activities such as change impact analysis and effort estimation. In the past, the focus on artifact dependencies has been at the design and code level rather than at the requirements level. This is due to the difficulties in identifying dependencies in a text-based requirements specification. We observed that difficulties reside in the disconnection among itemized requirements and the lack of a more systematic approach to write text-based requirements. Business process models are an increasingly important part of a requirements specification. In this paper, we present a mapping between workflow patterns and dependency types to aid dependency identification and change impact analysis. Our real-world case study results show that some participants, with the help of the mapping, discovered more dependencies than other participants using text-based requirements only. Though many of these additional dependencies are highly difficult to spot from the text-based requirements, they are however very useful for change impact analysis. © 2012 Springer-Verlag.; Dependencies among software artifacts are very useful for various software development and maintenance activities such as change impact analysis and effort estimation. In the past, the focus on artifact dependencies has been at the design and code level rather than at the requirements level. This is due to the difficulties in identifying dependencies in a text-based requirements specification. We observed that difficulties reside in the disconnection among itemized requirements and the lack of a more systematic approach to write text-based requirements. Business process models are an increasingly important part of a requirements specification. In this paper, we present a mapping between workflow patterns and dependency types to aid dependency identification and change impact analysis. Our real-world case study results show that some participants, with the help of the mapping, discovered more dependencies than other participants using text-based requirements only. Though many of these additional dependencies are highly difficult to spot from the text-based requirements, they are however very useful for change impact analysis. © 2012 Springer-Verlag.
关键词	Enterprise Resource Management Software Design Specifications
主办者	Bizagi; IBM; HP; Signavio
语种	英语
内容类型	会议论文
URI标识	http://ir.iscas.ac.cn/handle/311060/15741
专题	中国科学院软件研究所
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Li Juan,Jeffery Ross,Fung Kam Hay,et al. a business process-driven approach for requirements dependency analysis[C],2012:200-215.