Scenario-based software process

Scenarios are becoming ubiquitous artefacts in software development. Many researchers view scenarios as the product of the collaboration among developers and users during the requirements definition stage. We believe scenarios should be used in a wider scope, covering the whole development process. In this light, scenarios would be produced at different stages and, like other artefacts, would be in constant evolution. In order to support the scenario evolutionary process and aid the migration between stages, springs the need for a scenario-based software process. Recent research evidenced that the process dimension of scenarios is seldom considered in the literature. In this paper we propose a scenario-based process framework to support the evolution of scenarios. The framework relies on a set of scenario operations/relationships described previously and incorporates configuration management techniques