Computer Science ›› 2017, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (4): 118-123.doi: 10.11896/j.issn.1002-137X.2017.04.026

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Rule-based Verification of Use Case Specification

ZHANG Ying, WU Ji, LIU Chao, YANG Hai-yan and HU Ning   

  • Online:2018-11-13 Published:2018-11-13

Abstract: Use cases capture the functional requirement of system and are important in software development.Any error in use cases may have influence on the development of system.This paper described a method to verify use case specification based on the rules.First,we analyzed the error types of use case specification,then proposed a set of rules to help find these errors,which supports the automatic verification by formalizing the rules and focused the verification work on the meta-model of a kind of use case modeling method called RUCM(Restricted Use Case Modeling).

Key words: Requirement verification,Verification rules,Requirement error,RUCM

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