A use case driven requirements engineering process

• DOI: 10.1007/bf02813027
• Publication Date: 2008-01-23T14:54:26Z
• Authors: B. Dano; H. Briand; F. Barbier
• Keywords: Non-functional requirement; Domain engineering; Use Case Diagram

Regarding the requirements engineering process, approaches based on use cases seem to provide promising solutions concerning the early high-level requirements gathering problem. We propose an approach based on use cases to help the analyst during the requirements acquisition and the requirements conceptualisation activities, our final goal being to produce object-oriented specifications. The approach is "domain expert-oriented' in the sense that domain expert(s) (in fact, one or more in our approach) can actively participate during the requirements acquisition activity by identifying and by describing the use cases. Rules are proposed during the requirements conceptualisation activity and allow the analyst to generate parts of object type state transition diagrams from a use case description.