Communication Analysis: A Requirements Engineering Method for Information Systems

  • Authors:
  • Sergio España;Arturo González;Óscar Pastor

  • Affiliations:
  • Centro de Investigación en Métodos de Producción de Software, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia,;Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos y Computación, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia,;Centro de Investigación en Métodos de Producción de Software, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia,

  • Venue:
  • CAiSE '09 Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Developing Information Systems (ISs) is a hard task for which Requirements Engineering (RE) offers a good starting point. ISs can be viewed as a support for organisational communication. Therefore, we argue in favour of communication-oriented RE methods. This paper presents Communication Analysis, a method for IS development and computerisation. The focus is put on requirements modelling techniques. Two novel techniques are described; namely, Communicative Event Diagram and Communication Structures. These are based on sound theory, they are accompanied by prescriptive guidelines (such as unity criteria) and they are illustrated by means of a practical example.