Designing user comprehensible requirements engineering visual notations: A systematic survey

Author

Abd El-Ghafar, Randa M. ; Ghareeb, Abeer M. ; Nasr, Eman S.

Author_Institution

Comput. Sci. & Inf. Syst. Dept., Inst. of Stat. Studies & Res., Cairo, Egypt

fYear

2014

fDate

15-17 Dec. 2014

Abstract

Visual notations, or languages, have a very critical role in the Requirements Engineering (RE) phase, as their use facilitates human communication and problem solving. Visual languages consist of syntax (form) and semantic (meaning). Syntax is an important but usually neglected part. Hence, in this paper, we follow a systematic survey related to the visual syntax design of RE notations to answer a research question about how to design user comprehensible RE visual notations. We examined and analyzed nine papers from the literature, and summarized the results.

Keywords

computational linguistics; formal specification; formal verification; systems analysis; visual languages; RE; syntax; user comprehensible requirements engineering; visual language; visual notation; Business; Load modeling; Passive optical networks; Syntactics; Systematics; Unified modeling language; Visualization; cognitive effectiveness; physics of notation; requirements modeling; visual notations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Informatics and Systems (INFOS), 2014 9th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Cairo

Print_ISBN

978-977-403-689-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INFOS.2014.7036686

Filename

7036686