Repository for Business Rules Based IS Requirements
Volume 17, Issue 4 (2006), pp. 503–518
Pub. online: 1 January 2006
Type: Research Article
Received
1 October 2005
1 October 2005
Published
1 January 2006
1 January 2006
Abstract
The quality of software engineering projects often suffers due to the large gap between the way stakeholders present their requirements and the way analysts capture and express those requirements. With this problem in mind the new method for business rules driven IS requirements specification has been developed. In this paper the architecture of the requirements repository, which is at the core of the proposed method, is presented. The repository model supports the storage and management of all components of the captured requirements, including functions, business decisions, data sources, conceptual data model elements, business rules and their templates. The important aspects of the specialised requirements specification tool implementation are also overviewed.