A UML Profile for Modelling Measurable Requirements

  • Authors:

  • Jesús Pardillo;Fernando Molina;Cristina Cachero;Ambrosio Toval

  • Affiliations:

  • Lucentia Research Group, Department of Software and Computing Systems, University of Alicante, Spain;Department of Informatics and Systems, University of Murcia, Spain;Lucentia Research Group, Department of Software and Computing Systems, University of Alicante, Spain;Department of Informatics and Systems, University of Murcia, Spain

  • Venue:
  • ER '08 Proceedings of the ER 2008 Workshops (CMLSA, ECDM, FP-UML, M2AS, RIGiM, SeCoGIS, WISM) on Advances in Conceptual Modeling: Challenges and Opportunities
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

In the last years, the need for a sound integration of the requirements engineeringdiscipline with the model driven developmentparadigm has promoted the definition of a myriad of requirements metamodels. However, most existing proposals still lack backward (alignment with business goals) or forward (connection with validation methods such as measures) traceability, which hampers their usefulness. In this paper, we present a `measurable requirements metamodel' that connects goals, requirements, and measures, thus fostering a goal-oriented measurable requirements engineeringperspective. In order to provide this metamodel with a familiar notation, we also present a UML profile based on the i* framework, which facilitates its adoption in the context of any UML-based software engineering process.