C. Kop and H.C. Mayr (Austria)
Behavior Modeling, Conceptual Modeling, Dynamic Modeling, Requirements Engineering
Natural language requirements specifications for complex application systems are difficult to analyze and to validate. Consequently, a more formal lan guage for requirements representation is needed that is, for the purpose of validation, understood by end users (i.e. the requirements owners), as well as by system analysts and developers. Often, the Unified Modeling Language UML is proposed for that pur pose. But it is the authors’ experience that especially in non-technical environments UML does not meet the capabilities and interests of end-users so that many development projects still suffer from an incomplete requirements validation. We therefore propose an ap proach that is based on a more end-user oriented modeling language and that provides mechanisms for both: an automatic transformation of natural lan guage requirements specifications into that modeling language, and after validation, an automatic trans formation to UML or other conceptual languages. This paper concentrates on how our approach deals with requirements concerning information system be havior.
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