Task models as basis for requirements engineering and software execution

ABSTRACT In this paper we discuss an approach linking GUI specifications to abstract dialog models. Both specifications are based on task models describing behavioral features. It will be shown how first prototypes of interactive systems, which are generated from user interface models, can help to capture requirements. Users can interactively play with prototypes. Tool support is also provided for co-operative work of different users, which starts with abstract canonical prototypes that can evolve to concrete GUI specifications

Automated usability evaluation during model-based interactive system development

Abstract. In this paper we describe an approach to efficiently evaluate the usability of an interactive application that has been realized to support various platforms and modalities. Therefore we combine our Multi-Access Service Platform (MASP), a model-based runtime environment to offer multimodal user interfaces with the MeMo workbench which is a tool supporting an automated usability analysis. Instead of deriving a system model by reverse-engineering or annotating screenshots for the automated usability analysis, we use the semantics of the runtime models of the MASP. This allows us to reduce the evaluation effort by automating parts of the testing process for various combinations of platforms and user groups that should be addressed by the application. Furthermore, by testing the application at runtime, the usability evaluation can also consider system dynamics and information that are unavailable at design time

Task Models as Basis for Requirements Engineering and Software Execution

In this paper we discuss an approach linking GUI specifications to abstract dialog models. Both specifications are based on task models describing behavioral features. It will be shown how first prototypes of interactive systems, which are generated from user interface models, can help to capture requirements. Users can interactively play with prototypes. Tool support is also provided for co-operative work of different users, which starts with abstract canonical prototypes that can evolve to concrete GUI specifications

Benutzerinteraktion in dienstorientierten Architekturen

Ziel der Arbeit ist es, im Rahmen bestehender Entwicklungsvorgehen zur dienstorientierten Unterstützung von Geschäftsprozessen die Anforderungen des Menschen als Benutzer der IT von der Analyse bis zur Implementierung integriert berücksichtigen zu können. Hierbei kommen die Prinzipien der modellgetriebenen Softwareentwicklung zum Einsatz, um (1) eine plattformunabhängige Spezifikation dieser Anforderungen und (2) eine automatisierte Erzeugung der entsprechenden Softwareartefakte zu ermöglichen