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Where Enterprise Architecture and Early Software Engineering Meet: An approach to use cases definition

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Gabriel M. Miranda,

César H. Bernabé,

Lucas A. Santos,

Monalessa P. BarcellosAuthors Info & Claims

SBQS '18: Proceedings of the XVII Brazilian Symposium on Software Quality

Pages 240 - 249

https://doi.org/10.1145/3275245.3275271

Published: 17 October 2018 Publication History

Abstract

Software development involves the resolution of technical problems related to a certain domain. However, in order to provide a suitable technical solution, it is necessary to take the organizational environment related to the software into account. Use cases have been often used to elicit requirements and represent functionalities that the software must provide to its users. However, use cases are not expressive enough to represent the organizational environment. Moreover, this is not the purpose of use cases. In this context, Enterprise Architecture (EA) emerges as a way to describe the organization's domain. EA provides architectural descriptions that support the alignment between information technology (IT) and organizational processes and, thus, helps developers to properly understand the requirements the software must meet. In this paper, we propose an approach that uses EA models as a basis to define use cases, named CEA (use Cases definition oriented by Enterprise Architecture modeling). To demonstrate the proposal use, we applied it in a project in the Public Security domain. Additionally, CEA was evaluated in an experimental study. The results indicate that EA models helped requirements engineers to define use cases.

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1002/smr.2572
Zhou ZZhi QMorisaki SYamamoto S(2020)A Systematic Literature Review on Enterprise Architecture Visualization MethodologiesIEEE Access10.1109/ACCESS.2020.29958508(96404-96427)Online publication date: 2020
https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2995850

Index Terms

Where Enterprise Architecture and Early Software Engineering Meet: An approach to use cases definition
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Designing software
      1. Requirements analysis

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SBQS '18: Proceedings of the XVII Brazilian Symposium on Software Quality

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DOI:10.1145/3275245

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Martínez‐López JGarcía FRuiz FVizcaíno A(2023)Contributions of enterprise architecture to software engineeringJournal of Software: Evolution and Process10.1002/smr.257236:4Online publication date: 17-May-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1002/smr.2572
Zhou ZZhi QMorisaki SYamamoto S(2020)A Systematic Literature Review on Enterprise Architecture Visualization MethodologiesIEEE Access10.1109/ACCESS.2020.29958508(96404-96427)Online publication date: 2020
https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2995850

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