A Proposal for a Concrete Syntax for Use Case

• José Otávio Brochado Colombini Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo
• Fábio Levy Siqueira Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7550-2000

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/sbsi.2021.15353

Abstract

Problems in requirements elicitation and documentation may affect the entire software development process. Out of the possibles problems there are ambiguity, inconsistency, not in conformance to a standard, unclear documentation, etc. One way to avoid these problems is by using techniques that tries to mitigate the informality of this process. In this work we use the concepts of Model Driven Engineering (MDE) to represent behavioral requirements using the use case representation. We propose a concrete syntax for an existing abstract syntax and semantics. By using MDE it is possible to clearly indentify use case elements and their relationship, creating an structured format that improves model quality.

Keywords: Model Driven Engineering, Requirements Engineering, Use Case, Concrete Syntax

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