Quality dependencies among use case models and sequence diagrams developed by novice systems analysts

Authors:
Narasimha Bolloju;Vijayan Sugumaran
Affiliations:
Department of Information Systems, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong;Department of Decision and Information Sciences, School of Business Administration, Oakland University, Rochester, MI
Venue:
ER'07 Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Advances in conceptual modeling: foundations and applications
Year:
2007

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Abstract

Capturing and representing information systems requirements using quality artifacts is an important step in successful systems development process. Better quality artifacts in the early stages of systems development help in early detection and correction of errors. Although UML is widely used for modeling systems requirements, it is often difficult for novice systems analysts to develop quality UML artifacts. This paper mines a set of errors frequently observed in use case models and sequence diagrams created by novice analysts, and develops propositions identifying intra- and inter-artifacts quality. The data mining tool, AlphaMiner, was used to discover dependencies as association rules between frequently committed errors. Propositions have been developed based on these dependencies identified from student projects.