Using Business Processes in System Requirements Definition

Abstract

The relevance of business process modeling and information technology is growing. That happens because, in general, information systems automate, assist and control those processes. So, the business understanding can be crucial for an appropriate requirements definition. However, there are still few methods that exploit the contributions that the Business Process Engineering can provide for requirements elicitation to produce results more compliant to the company needs. Thus, this work presents a method and its application in a real case that uses the business processes as a way to extract the requirements.