Business process model driven automatic software requirements generation.

Abstract

Requirement engineering is a critical stage in software engineering, it enables requirement engineers extract correct system needs, both functional and non-functional constraints from stakeholders. The majority of the errors found in software functionality are directly linked to the mistakes made during the requirement elicitation phases. Therefore, several approaches have been proposed to enhance existing requirements engineering techniques to both reduce such mistakes and to speed up the requirements engineering process. One type of promising approaches is based on utilizing business process modelling to take benefit from business process models to derive requirements. This paper argues that it is possible to generate requirements from business process models. It proposes an approach to derive system requirements; it employs business process models and then transforms them into requirement models. Evaluation shows the proposed approach was able to generate additional valid use case model features compared to other competing approaches.