Rule-based Verification of Scenarios with Pre-conditions and Post-conditions

  • Authors:
  • Tatsuya Toyama;Atsushi Ohnishi

  • Affiliations:
  • Ritsumeikan University;Ritsumeikan University

  • Venue:
  • RE '05 Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Conference on Requirements Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Scenarios that describe concrete situations of software operation play an important role in software development, especially in requirements engineering. Since scenarios are informal, the correctness of scenarios is hard to be verified. The authors have developed a language for describing scenarios in which simple action traces are embellished. The purposes are to include typed frames based on a simple case grammar of actions and to describe the sequence among events. Based on this scenario language, this paper describes both (1) a correctness-verification method using rules to detect errors (lack of events, extra events, and wrong sequence among events) in a scenario and (2) a retrieval method of rules from rule DB that applicable to scenarios using pre and post- conditions.