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UML and NFR-framework based method for the analysis of the requirements of an information system

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Software requirements are the expectation of stakeholders which are identified and modeled by various requirements elicitation and modeling techniques like traditional methods, goal oriented methods, and unified modeling language (UML), etc. The identified software requirements are broadly classified into functional requirements (FRs) and non-functional requirements (NFRs). Based on our literature review, we found that most of the focus in the area of software engineering is on the analysis of FRs as compared to NFRs. For the successful development of any information system both FRs and NFRs should be considered equally during the elicitation and modeling process; and ignoring NFRs may lead to failure of software. Therefore, to address this issue, we developed a method for the analysis of both FRs and NFRs so that a successful software product can be developed by a software company. In the proposed method, FRs are modeled by UML use-case diagram, class-diagram, and activity diagram. The NFRs are analyzed using NFR-framework; and NFR propagation rules have been derived from the requirements of an information system. In this framework, fuzzy based approach has been used to analyze the contribution links of softgoal interdependency graph. The applicability of the proposed method is discussed by using FRs and NFRs of library information system.

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    Mohd. Arif & Chaudhary Wali Mohammad

  2. Software Engineering Lab, Computer Engineering Section, UPFET, Jamia Millia Islamia, A Central University, New Delhi, 110025, India

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Arif, M., Mohammad, C.W. & Sadiq, M. UML and NFR-framework based method for the analysis of the requirements of an information system. Int. j. inf. tecnol. 15, 411–422 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41870-022-01112-7

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