Use Case Elicitation with FrameNet Frames

Natural language-based use cases remains the main means of requirements elicitation and specification, despite the well-known problems that accompany natural language specifications, namely their incompleteness, inconsistency and ambiguity. This paper presents a novel approach for tackling the textual description problems by using FrameNet frames, which are linguistics patterns for concept description. The proposed approach is demonstrated via an explorative example. We show that use of frames in use case-based elicitation has a promise to lead to clearer understanding of the domain concepts covered in a use-case and to help acquire more complete information.