modeling
Understanding System Analysis Models
This article is an extract of the “Complete Systems Analysis” written by James and Suzanne Robertson. It explains the basics of analysis models and emphasize that the important thing to remember is that modeling tools are complementary. Each shows one aspect of the system. Together, they make a complete working model of the system.
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Find Missing Requirements
This blog post by Betsy Stockdale explains how to use the Feature Tree model to discover missing requirements.
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Modeling with SoaML: Service identification
The power of a service-oriented architecture (SOA) is in its ability to enable business agility through business process integration and reuse. SoaML (Service-Oriented Architecture Modeling Language) is an Object Management Group (OMG) standard that is intended to help realize the potential of SOA.
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Using UML or IDEF for Business Modeling
The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a modeling language standardized by the Object Management Group (OMG) used to manage requirements in software development projects. IDEF, the acronym for Integration DEFinition, refers to a family of modeling languages in the field of systems and software engineering.
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Visual Models for Software Requirements
Software requirements are often thought to be textual material that can take the form of free “system shall…” statements, user stories, or “give when then” of behavior driven development. This blog post explore the usage of visual models to capture software requirements. It explains that models are not requirements, but they help us find and […]
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An Agile Method for Model-Driven Requirements Engineering
This article provides a methodological approach that focuses on requirements engineering within the Model-Driven Development (MDD) context. Our approach is an OpenUP extension in which the requirements discipline is placed in the model-driven context. We believe that the integration of requirements engineering and MDD into one consistent process will provide practitioners with the benefits of […]
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