A Domain Specific Language for the I* Framework

Abstract

The i* framework proposes a goal-oriented analysis method for requirements engineering. It is a systematic approach to discover and structure requirements at organizational level where functional, non-functional requirements and their relations are specified. A Domain Specific Language (DSL) has the purpose to specify and model concepts in some domain, having several advantages in relation to general purpose languages, such as it allows expressing a solution in the desired language and at the desired abstraction level. In order to create such a DSL, normally it is necessary to start by specifying its syntax by means of a metamodel to be given as input to the language workbenches that generate the corresponding editors for it. With a proper editor for the language we can specify models with the proposed notation. This paper presents a DSL for the i* framework, with the purpose to handle complexity and scalability of its concrete models by introducing some innovations in the i* framework metamodel like mechanisms that will help to manage the models scalability.

The VisualAORE DSL

“…To represent the conflict between response time and correctness, the Contribution link is used with the values " These values represent a negative contribution from the response time to correctness and a null contribution in reverse. 9. Concerns Aggregation Module to Via Verde case study.…”

“…A DSL for the i* framework [9] is a work that implements a DSL for the i* technique. The i* framework allows modeling goal-oriented data and identifies nonfunctional requirements.…”

Model-Driven Development for Requirements Engineering: The Case of Goal-Oriented Approaches

“…Figure 1 shows a fragment of the LDE i* metamodel. The full version can be found in [12]. The root of the metamodel is the class SRModel.…”

“…In this work we use LDE i* [12], a Domain Specific Language (DSL) [17] for i*. Its main objective is to ensure a better management of complexity and scalability of their models by introducing the notion of compartment where elements of an i* model can be grouped.…”

“…In this work, we propose a model transformation framework, called MDGore, to transform i* models into KAOS models through rules defined in ATL (Atlas Transformation Language) [9]. To achieve this, i* and KAOS models are specified using our tools that were developed in an Eclipse platform, LDE i* [12] and modularKAOS framework [13]. The application of the transformation rules is done at abstract syntax level, defined in the metamodel of each one of the frameworks mentioned, and uses the graph transformation paradigm [14], using the transformation language ATL.…”