The tropos software development methodology: processes, models and diagrams

  • Authors:
  • Fausto Giunchiglia;John Mylopoulos;Anna Perini

  • Affiliations:
  • DIT University of Trento, Trento-Povo, Italy;CS Dept. University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada;ITC-Irst, Trento-Povo, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 1
  • 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 other knowledge level concepts are 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 short paper outlines basic elements of the Tropos methodology: the conceptual framework and the analysis process through which design flows from external to system actors through a goal analysis and delegation.