Generating Executable Capability Models for Requirements Validation

摘要

Executable modeling allows the models to be executed and treated as prototypes to determine the behaviors of a system. In this paper, we propose an approach for formalizing requirement models and generating executable models from them. Application activity diagrams (AADs), which are used to represent dynamic behaviors of systems in capability requirements models, are firstly formalized and saved as XML documents. Then, on the basis of these models, a mapping algorithm of translating AADs into instances of executable models for simulation is proposed. A case study is finally given to demonstrate the applicability of the method.