ICON-BASED LANGAUGE: AUXILIARY COMMUNICATION FOR REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING

摘要

In requirements engineering, numerous modelling approaches have been addressed to support communication and shared understanding, for instance, UML (use case diagram) and GORE (goal graph). Most of them use geometrical shapes as fundamental elements. The RE stakeholders, therefore, need to master the prerequisite skill to understand this complex set of abstraction. Recently, there has been an increasing need for a simple and an easy-to-learn modelling technique. We propose an icon-based language as an alternative to RE modelling. Unlike other RE notations, icon-based language is devised principally from a set of icons. Our approach can be derived by identifying RE world, defining icon world and combining these two worlds. This development yields the demand to have a modelling language that unifies requirements activities. The result can be used to overcome the communication barriers between technical and non-technical stakeholders, and to have icon attributes that can be attached to individual requirement.