Evaluating MaSE Methodology in the Requirements Identification

Abstract

Agent orientation appears as a solution for constructing complex systems adapting the requirements identification to cope with agent properties like autonomy, sociability and pro-activeness. Many methodologies were proposed adopting this new paradigm. However, most of them are still in development and therefore need to be adapted. In this work MaSE, an agent-oriented methodology is evaluated. We use an exemplar proposed in 2001 by Yu and Cysneiros [1] to evaluate both agent/goal orientation and object orientation. This evaluation aims at analysing which are the strengths and weaknesses of MaSE through the methodologies questions proposed in the exemplar.