Improving Use Case Specifications by means of Refactoring

Author

Marcos, C. ; Rago, A. ; Pace, J.A.D.

Volume

13

Issue

4

fYear

2015

fDate

Apr-15

Firstpage

1135

Lastpage

1140

Abstract

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.

Keywords

formal specification; recommender systems; software maintenance; functional analysts; quality problems; real-world systems; recommendation list; recommending proper refactorings; refactoring means; semiautomatic tool; use case specifications; Computer aided software engineering; Customer relationship management; Manuals; Mobile communication; Silicon; Silicon compounds; Software; duplicate functionality; early aspects; requirements engineering; use case refactoring; use case specification;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Latin America Transactions, IEEE (Revista IEEE America Latina)

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1548-0992

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TLA.2015.7106367

Filename

7106367