The Tropos software development methodology: processes, models and diagrams

  • Authors:

  • Fausto Giunchiglia;John Mylopoulos;Anna Perini

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Information and Communication Technology, University of Trento, Povo, Italy;Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada;ITC-Irst, Trento, Povo, Italy

  • Venue:
  • AOSE'02 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Agent-oriented software engineering III
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Tropos is a novel agent-oriented software development methodology founded on two key features: (i) the notions of agent, goal, plan and various other knowledge level concepts are fundamental primitives used uniformly throughout the software development process; and (ii) a crucial role is assigned to requirements analysis and specification when the system-to-be is analyzed with respect to its intended environment. This paper describes the basic concepts on which Tropos is founded and the types of models one builds out of them. We also specify the analysis process through which design flows from external to system actors through a goal analysis and delegation. In addition, we provide an abstract syntax for Tropos diagrams and other linguistic constructs.