Transitions from models to working systems (Managing requirements through to service specification)
Hilary Dexter
In the software application development process there is often a gap between the vision for a system held by practitioners and the running software that actually emerges from a development effort. This session examined an approach to capturing domain experts’ vision for a system and their knowledge of the workings of that system in a set of requirements expressed as UML Use Cases. Also looked at was the mechanism for managing the traceability of these requirements from their abstraction from the experts’ narratives through to the specification of the services that are to implement them. The modelling method proposed ensures requirements coverage and includes requirements change management allowing service and system refinement and evolution. Emphasis is placed on working within a defined development process, with a shared understanding of the key deliverables of that process, and providing process-based support for the development team.
About the presenter
Dr. Hilary Dexter, Distributed Learning, University of Manchester
Hilary is a distributed learning advisor in the Teaching, Learning and Assessment Office of the University of Manchester. Hilary’s research and development work focuses on supporting change management for process and practice improvement and the scaling up of e-learning service provision, employing a model driven approach. She
is a business and systems analyst with extensive experience, both in industry and HE, in service, component and object-oriented system development methods.