Authors:
Fernanda Alencar
1
;
Carla Silva
2
;
Márcia Lucena
3
;
Jaelson Castro
2
;
Emanuel Santos
2
and
Ricardo Ramos
2
Affiliations:
1
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil
;
2
Centro de Informática, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil
;
3
Centro de Informática, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco; Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
Keyword(s):
Requirements Engineering, Goal-Oriented Framework, Modelling Language, Structuring Mechanisms.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
;
Modeling Formalisms, Languages and Notations
;
Requirements Analysis And Management
Abstract:
Requirements engineering (RE) has been considered a key activity in almost all software engineering process. i* is a goal-oriented approach widely adopted in the earlier phases of RE, as it offers a modelling language that describes the system and its environment in terms of actors and dependencies among them. However, often the models become cluttered even for small applications, compromising their understanding, evolution and scalability. In large and complex applications, this problem increases significantly. In this paper we investigate the use of structuring mechanisms to deal with the complexity which may arise when i* is used to model complex domains.