Software Requirements Engineering addresses specific challenges which exist in the effort to gain an understanding of the nature of the engineering problem arising from users real-world needs and desires. This research is aimed at helping software analysts meet these challenges. The proposed methodology forms the basis of the automated process designed to capture the high-level system services and actors from the textual user requirements. This model is intended to serve as a basis for software Use-Case Model development, and can be used by analysts in their in-depth study of requirements text. The approach is rooted in the syntactical analysis and formalization of text written in natural language, and it is enriched with domain-related information provided by the Expert Comparable Contextual (ECC) models that are extracted from reusable domain-specific data models. We illustrate the applicability of our methodology on an order invoicing case study and demonstrate it with a prototype tool. The results of the validation of our methodology prove that such a tool for assisting the elicitation of use-case models from textual requirements is feasible.
@inproceedings{wer200812,
author = {Seresht, S. M. and Ormandjieva, O.},
title = {Automated Assistance for Use Cases Elicitation from User Requirements Text},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the WER2008-11th Workshop on Requirements Engineering, Barcelona, Catalonia - Spain},
year = {2008},
issn = {2675-0066},
isbn = {978-84-7653-144-0},
doi = {}
}