Criteria Used for the Evaluation of Software System Requirements Models

This paper presents a set of criteria which can be used as a basis for comparison of software system requirements models. The criteria are intended to cover aspects of a requirements model which allows for assessment of its suitability for a particular application. A range of models have been chosen to demonstrate the diversity of notation, application and intention and they have been considered separately from the methods used for their creation. The models have been evaluated against the criteria and more details can be found in [HD96]. Information is presented that will be of use to researchers and practitioners who are interested in modelling software system requirements and the provision of tool support for requirements engineering. Keywords software engineering, requirements engineering, requirements modelling. 1 also lecturer in the Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Victoria University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia 1 Introduction This paper describes t..