Enacting a requirement engineering process with meta-tools : an exploratory project

Sana Damak Mallouli (1) , Saïd Assar (1, 2, 3)

1 CRI - Centre de Recherche en Informatique de Paris 1
2 IMT-BS - DSI - Département Systèmes d'Information
3 LITEM - Laboratoire en Innovation, Technologies, Economie et Management (EA 7363)

An engineering process can hardly be described rigorously because of its dynamic and decision-oriented nature. Applying goal-oriented modeling for representing such processes is a promising approach. However, goal-oriented process models have no clear operational semantics, and building an enactment engine for such models is a highly complex task. To avoid building such tools in an ad-hoc manner and to overcome maintainability and portability issues, we investigate in this paper the practical feasibility of meta-CASE and CAME based approaches for constructing an enactment tool for a goal-oriented model. We describe and analyze a project in which MetaEdit+, a leading meta-tool, is tested. Our aim is to evaluate the meta-tool approach and to explore its possibilities in terms of process model enactment. During this project, a requirement elicitation process is used as a preliminary test bed.

Domains: Modeling and Simulation; Computer Aided Engineering

Sana Damak Mallouli, Saïd Assar. Enacting a requirement engineering process with meta-tools : an exploratory project. ICCGI 2013 : The Eighth International Multi-Conference on Computing in the Global Information Technology, Jul 2013, Nice, France. pp.208. ⟨hal-00998729⟩