Abstract
There is a widespread agreement of the business models’ importance to represent the economic point of view of a company in a value model. Such value models are core for the successful alignment of a business and its information systems, and they can be used as input of the software requirements specification process. However, creating requirements models, such as goal-oriented models or use cases, aligned with value models is a time consuming and error-prone task. Automating the construction of more refined models from more abstract ones, can contribute to accelerate the software development cycle and increase the developer’s productivity. This paper offers a systematic approach to automatically generate goal-oriented models from value models. This is achieved by both defining conceptual mappings between value models and goal-oriented models and using model-driven techniques to define automatic transformations between both types of models. We have used our approach in several case studies and the results show that our approach reduces the requirements engineer effort to build goal-oriented models and ensure the alignment between business and IT.
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Notes
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Software requirements specifications are created in the initial stages of information systems’ development describing the software system to be developed.
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A mind map is a type of cognitive map used to view, classify and organize concepts, and to generate new ideas in a straightforward and intuitive way [6].
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The direction is set based on the environment actor.
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GRL had the same four concepts mapped, however, as the graphical representation of these concepts is similar to iStar, the same transformation scheme can be used to both goal-oriented models.
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The proof-of-concept tool can be found at https://goo.gl/9paig7.
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This research is supported by the NOVA LINCS Research Laboratory (Ref. UID/CEC/04516/2013), and Programa Ciência sem Fronteiras - CAPES (Ref. 99999.009047/2013-01).
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Souza, E., Moreira, A., Araújo, J. (2017). Aligning Business Models with Requirements Models. In: Themistocleous, M., Morabito, V. (eds) Information Systems. EMCIS 2017. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 299. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65930-5_43
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