An Approach of Software Requirements Elicitation Based on the Model and Notation Business Process (BPMN)

Abstract—The high competitiveness between business organizations demands a constant innovation and evolution in their productive processes, requiring information systems to be produced and modified with the same swiftness. However, the software requirements elicitation, considered a critical step to the success of the software development, many times it is still done without an effective warranty of its alignment with the problems and needs inherent to the business.
This work proposes the development of an approach for software requirements elicitation through the Model and Notation Business Process (BPMN). From the approach point of view of this problem, will be used a qualitative research, because focuses on conceptual issues, patterns, opinions expressed and their respectives analyzes and, from the point of view of technical procedures, it is based on case studies. The preliminary results of the studies indicate that its use is viable and can assist the result effectiveness of the software requirements elicitation.

Index Terms—Business process modeling, requirements definition, software development, software engineering.

The authors are with the Federal Technological University of Paraná, Brasil (e-mail: chiarello@celepar.pr.gov.br, mclaudia@dainf.ct.utfpr.edu.br, adolfo@dainf.ct.utfpr.edu.br).

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Cite: Marcos A. Chiarello, Maria Cláudia F. P. Emer, and Adolfo Gustavo S. S. Neto, "An Approach of Software Requirements Elicitation Based on the Model and Notation Business Process (BPMN)," Lecture Notes on Software Engineering vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 65-70, 2014.