Title
Discovering requirements through goal-driven process mining
Date Issued
29 September 2017
Access level
open access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Dabrowski J.
Kifetew F.M.
Letier E.
Siena A.
Susi A.
Fundación Bruno Kessler
Publisher(s)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Abstract
Software systems are designed to support their users in performing tasks that are parts of more general processes. Unfortunately, software designers often make invalid assumptions about the users' processes and therefore about the requirements to support such processes. Eliciting and validating such assumptions through manual means (e.g., through observations, interviews, and workshops) is expensive, time-consuming, and may fail to identify the users' real processes. Using process mining may reduce these problems by automating the monitoring and discovery of the actual processes followed by a crowd of users. The Crowd provides an opportunity to involve diverse groups of users to interact with a system and conduct their intended processes. This implicit feedback in the form of discovered processes can then be used to modify the existing system's functionalities and ensure whether or not a software product is used as initially designed. In addition, the analysis of user-system interactions may reveal lacking functionalities and quality issues. These ideas are illustrated on the GreenSoft personal energy management system.
Start page
199
End page
203
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Sistemas de automatización, Sistemas de control Ingeniería eléctrica, Ingeniería electrónica
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85034663388
ISBN of the container
9781538634882
Conference
Proceedings - 2017 IEEE 25th International Requirements Engineering Conference Workshops, REW 2017
Sponsor(s)
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT This work is a result of the SUPERSEDE project, funded by the H2020 EU Framework Programme under agreement number 644018.
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