A method for mapping XML-based specifications between development methodologies

• Main Author: Huang, Fei
• Other Authors: Vaidyanathan, Ganesh
• Format: Others
• Language: en
• Published: University of Saskatchewan 2009
• Subjects: XML; Specification; UML; Putting Usability First (PUF); Metadata
• Online Access: http://library.usask.ca/theses/available/etd-04162009-202902/

The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is widely used by software engineers as the basis of analysis and design in software development. However, UML ignores human factors in the course of software development because of its strong emphasis on the internal structure and functionality of the application. This thesis presents a method of mapping human-computer interaction (HCI) requirement specifications generated by usability engineering (UE) methodologies (e.g. Putting Usability First (PUF)) into UML specifications. These two sets of requirement specification are specified, using Extensible Markup Language (XML) so that HCI requirement specifications can be integrated into UML ones. A Mapping Tool was developed to facilitate the creation of mappings between PUF XML tags and XMI tags. The Mapping Tool was used to create mappings between PUF and UML requirement specifications. This mapping process and its outputs were evaluated to demonstrate that the tool worked. The results of the evaluation show that the HCI requirement specification represented by the PUF XML tags can improve the UML specification by adding them into the XMI tags.