Activity Diagram Inspection on Requirements Specification

2010 Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering Pub Date : 2010-09-27 DOI:10.1109/SBES.2010.29

R. Mello, Wallace M. Pereira, G. Travassos

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The requirements specification of contemporary software applications usually is composed by diverse artifacts describing lots of activities, flows, dependencies among the flows, branches and business rules. For instance, web or scientific workflow (e-science) based applications require structural representations for the various activities and functionalities involved in their execution, usually described trough activity diagrams. The quality assurance of such specifications represents a challenge for software engineers. The results of a quasi-systematic review indicated there is a lack of software technologies to support the inspection of this type of requirements specification. Therefore, in this paper, besides the review results, an inspection technique (checklist) to review Activity Diagrams on the requirements specifications is introduced. A proof of concept on applying the checklist for the inspection of a real requirements specification concerned with a scientific workflow based application indicated some advantages on its defect detection capacity when compared with previously executed ad-hoc inspection by software engineers.

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需求规范的活动图检查

当代软件应用程序的需求规范通常由描述大量活动、流、流之间的依赖关系、分支和业务规则的不同工件组成。例如，基于web或科学工作流(电子科学)的应用程序需要对其执行中涉及的各种活动和功能进行结构化表示，通常通过活动图进行描述。这些规范的质量保证对软件工程师来说是一个挑战。准系统审查的结果表明，缺乏软件技术来支持对这种类型的需求规格说明的检查。因此，本文除了介绍评审结果外，还介绍了一种评审需求规范上活动图的评审技术(检查表)。将检查表应用于与基于科学工作流的应用程序有关的实际需求规范的检查的概念证明表明，与以前由软件工程师执行的临时检查相比，它在缺陷检测能力上具有一些优势。

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