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2016 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Exploring Views for Goal-Oriented Requirements Comprehension

Authors : Lyrene Silva, Ana Moreira, João Araújo, Catarina Gralha, Miguel Goulão, Vasco Amaral

Published in: Conceptual Modeling

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Abstract

Requirements documents and models need to be used by many stakeholders with different technological proficiency during software development. Each stakeholder may need to understand the entire (or simply part of the) requirements artifacts. To empower these stakeholders, views of the requirements should be configurable to their particular needs. This paper uses information visualization techniques to help in this process. It proposes different views aiming at highlighting information that is relevant for a particular stakeholder, helping him to query requirements artifacts. We offer three kinds of visualizations capturing language and domain elements, while providing a gradual model overview: the big picture view, the syntax-based view, and the concern-based view. We instantiate these views with i* models and introduce an implementation prototype in the iStarLab tool.

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Metadata
Title
Exploring Views for Goal-Oriented Requirements Comprehension
Authors
Lyrene Silva
Ana Moreira
João Araújo
Catarina Gralha
Miguel Goulão
Vasco Amaral
Copyright Year
2016
Book
Conceptual Modeling

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-46396-4

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-46397-1

Copyright Year: 2016

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46397-1_12

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