Using Intentional Modeling to Discover the User Preferences in Existing Software Systems

• Information systems consist of many low-level components, such as source code, functioning together as a unified whole. However, higher-level requirements, such as the preferences of users concerning quality intentions of the system, are often under-documented, if documented at all. Consequently it can be highly important to elicit the intentions underlying the system for driving or justifying system acceptance in a certain business context. This paper utilizes intentional modeling to discover just such user preferences in existing software systems, in this case a system for managing of the student thesis process in a Swedish university. To accomplish this, stepwise guidelines are proposed for evaluating what user preferences an extant software system expresses. These are presented in a feature model, which is then mapped to the software systems goals, which are themselves represented in i*.

Ämnesord

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Data- och informationsvetenskap -- Systemvetenskap, informationssystem och informatik (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Computer and Information Sciences -- Information Systems (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

Requirements Engineering

Consumer Preferences

Goal Modeling

iStar

Computer and Systems Sciences

data- och systemvetenskap

Publikations- och innehållstyp

ref (ämneskategori)

kon (ämneskategori)