Measuring User Requirements Dependency: The Organizational Perspective

In organizational environment, user requirements are key system aspects that need to be realized in the system-to-be context. Aiming to support transformational development, organizations insist to acquire software business applications that satisfy business goals and processes strategically. A software product quality for an organization depends on how well it fits to the organizational goals and business processes. In system problem decomposition, requirements dependency is critically important to measure cohesion and coupling properties of business applications. It can also be used to set acceptance criteria. The more software engineering techniques are getting far from organizational settings the gap between the business requirements and application increases. Such gaps can be minimized by employing context sensitive methods. In this paper, a heuristic method is presented to measure user requirements intentional and flow dependency by considering goal-scenario modeling. The method is designed by aligning business goals, processes, and scenario concepts.