AN I*-BASED APPROACH FOR MODELING AND TESTING WEB REQUIREMENTS
Keywords:
Requirement engineering, Web requirements, i, goal evaluationAbstract
Web designers usually ignore how to model real user expectations and goals, mainly due to the large and heterogeneous audience of theWeb. This fact leads to websites which are difficult to comprehend by visitors and complex to maintain by designers; these problems could be ameliorated if users are able to evaluate the application under development providing their feedback. To this aim, in this paper we present an approach for using the i* framework for modeling users’ goals with mockups andWebSpec diagrams for detailing the specification of Web requirements, in such a way that the process of evaluating i* models for Web applications can be automated thus improving users’ feedback during the development process. Also, as part of our development approach, we derive the domain and navigational models by defining a set of automatic transformations to a specific Web modeling method. Finally, we illustrate our approach with a case study to show its applicability and describe a prototype tool that supports the process.
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