XML Application for Non-Functional Requirements Management in Systems Project

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to present an environment for the management of functional and non-functional requirements in systems project, developed using the XML (Extensible Markup Language) standard. This environment receives as inputs two entry structures for software requirements modelling: the UML´s Use Case diagram, which describes functional requirements; and the I* framework used by the Tropos methodology, which defines non-functional requirements. Then, it automatically transforms these structures in a third structure that extends the Use Case definitions with the non-functional requirements and provides management facilities of these extensions to UML´s Use Case diagrams.