Transforming an enterprise model into a use case model using existing heuristics

Abstract

One of the key responsibilities of Requirements Engineering is to refine requirements into specifications. Although there are some approaches for requirements refinement, this task is usually executed manually. Based on Model-Driven Engineering concepts, this study proposes a semi-automatic transformation using an enterprise model as source and a use case model as target. The underlying hypothesis is that using an enterprise model as a source it is possible to represent both the requirements and the domain knowledge that are necessary to obtain specifications. Considering this hypothesis, this study discusses the proposed transformation and a set of heuristics - found in the analysis of existing studies - using an example, executed with support of a tool.