An i*-based approach for modeling and testing web requirements

  • Authors:

  • Esteban Robles Luna;Irene Garrigós;Jose-Norberto Mazón;Juan Trujillo;Gustavo Rossi

  • Affiliations:

  • LIFIA, UNLP, Argentina;Lucentia Research group, University of Alicante, Spain;Lucentia Research group, University of Alicante, Spain;Lucentia Research group, University of Alicante, Spain;LIFIA, UNLP, Argentina

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Web Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Web designers usually ignore how to model real user expectations and goals, mainly dueto the large and heterogeneous audience of theWeb. This fact leads to websites which aredifficult to comprehend by visitors and complex to maintain by designers; these problemscould be ameliorated if users are able to evaluate the application under developmentproviding their feedback. To this aim, in this paper we present an approach for using thei* framework for modeling users' goals with mockups and WebSpec diagrams for detailingthe specification of Web requirements, in such a way that the process of evaluating i*models for Web applications can be automated thus improving users' feedback duringthe development process. Also, as part of our development approach, we derive thedomain and navigational models by defining a set of automatic transformations to aspecific Web modeling method. Finally, we illustrate our approach with a case study toshow its applicability and describe a prototype tool that supports the process.