Improving Use Case Specifications by means of Refactoring

This work presents a semi-automatic tool for use case refactoring called RE-USE. This tool discovers existing quality problems in use cases and suggests a prioritized set of candidate refactorings to functional analysts. The analyst then reviews the recommendation list and selects the most important...

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Published inRevista IEEE América Latina Vol. 13; no. 4; pp. 1135 - 1140
Main Authors Marcos, Claudia, Rago, Alejandro, Diaz Pace, Jorge Andres
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Alamitos IEEE 01.04.2015
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subjects
Americas
Computer aided software engineering
Customer relationship management
duplicate functionality
early aspects
Lists
Manuals
Mobile communication
requirements engineering
Silicon
Silicon compounds
Software
Specifications
use case refactoring
use case specification
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ISSN1548-0992
1548-0992
DOI10.1109/TLA.2015.7106367

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Summary:This work presents a semi-automatic tool for use case refactoring called RE-USE. This tool discovers existing quality problems in use cases and suggests a prioritized set of candidate refactorings to functional analysts. The analyst then reviews the recommendation list and selects the most important refactoring. The tool applies the chosen refactoring and returns an improved specification. The tool effectiveness in detecting existing quality problems and recommending proper refactorings was assessed using a set of case studies related to real-world systems obtaining encouraging results.
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ISSN:1548-0992
1548-0992
DOI:10.1109/TLA.2015.7106367