Abstract
Requirements analysis includes activities that acquire and compile users' needs into a baseline document (a software requirements specification), and validate the document. This document is generally used as the road map for later phases during software development. It is widely accepted that prototyping is a useful approach for extracting users' needs, and that formal and semi-formal specification languages are valid approaches for creating rigid requirements specifications. However, both have some short-comings for requirement analysis. In this paper, we present an approach that achieves a balanced mix of prototyping and formal specification languages to enhance requirements analysis. In addition, we introduce a supporting environment, called ROAD/EE, that facilitates prototyping based on object-oriented specifications. The basic idea behind ROAD/EE is that of executing object-oriented specifications directly and animating its result with shape and movement of icons. ROAD/EE also helps users interact with the prototype so that users can easily find errors in the specification.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the Conference on Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems, TOOLS |
| Editors | R. Ege, M. Singh, B. Meyer |
| Publisher | IEEE Comp Soc |
| Pages | 176-189 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Publication status | Published - 1997 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | Proceedings of the 1997 Conference on Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems, TOOLS 23 - Santa Barbara, CA, USA Duration: 1997 Jul 28 → 1997 Aug 1 |
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| Other | Proceedings of the 1997 Conference on Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems, TOOLS 23 |
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| City | Santa Barbara, CA, USA |
| Period | 97/7/28 → 97/8/1 |
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ROAD/EE : A prototyping environment for object-oriented specifications. / Tamura, Naoki; Nakajima, Tsuyoshi.
Proceedings of the Conference on Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems, TOOLS. ed. / R. Ege; M. Singh; B. Meyer. IEEE Comp Soc, 1997. p. 176-189.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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