CAPTURING INFORMATION SYSTEM'S REQUIREMENT USING BUSINESS PROCESS SIMULATION

摘要

Systems requirements can be divided into two major groups: functional requirements and non-functional requirements (NFR). Functional requirements describe what the system does or is expected to do. In other words, they describe the functionality of the system. Nonfunctional requirements are concerned with describing how well the system delivers the functional requirements. Despite the fact NFR play a very important role during the software development process these have been overlooked by researchers and are less understood than other factors in software development. One reason for this might be because NFR are difficult to represent in a measurable way, something that impedes their proper analysis. This paper explores the feasibility of using Business Process Simulation (BPS) models to provide IS analyst with alternative ways to capture non-functional requirements.