Software requirements elaboration with decision tables

• Autorzy: Grzybowski, Michał , Młyńczak, Jakub , Sokołowska, Lucyna , Matowicki, Michał
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

The paper describes decision table notation as a requirements definition technique. Modern critical systems, e.g., railway signaling systems, are implemented with electronic technologies. The use of computers in these systems has greatly expanded their functionality. Increase in functionality unfortunately leads to increase in complexity, which forces the designer to follow a more rigorous development process. The paper discusses the subject of describing expected software behavior, i.e., software requirements specification. It presents desired requirements features and describes how these features can be obtained by use of decision tables. The paper also discusses decision table transformations, which can reduce the effort to establish decision tables and facilitate their analysis. The authors’ experiments support the use of decision tables as a mean to increase requirements quality by providing tools for automatic decision table processing.

Słowa kluczowe

PL

tabele decyzyjne; inżynieria oprogramowania; metody półformalne

EN

decision tables; software engineering; semiformal method

• Czasopismo: Zeszyty Naukowe. Transport / Politechnika Śląska
• Rocznik: 2024
• Tom: z. 125
• Strony: 89--99
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 7 poz.

Twórcy

autor

Grzybowski, Michał

• Faculty of Transport and Aviation Engineering, The Silesian University of Technology, Krasińskiego 8 Street, 40-019 Katowice, Poland,

autor

Młyńczak, Jakub

• Faculty of Transport and Aviation Engineering, The Silesian University of Technology, Krasińskiego 8 Street, 40-019 Katowice, Poland,

autor

Sokołowska, Lucyna

• Railway Research Institute IK, Józefa Chłopickiego 50 Street, 04-275 Warsaw, Poland,

autor

Matowicki, Michał

• Faculty of Transportation Sciences, Czech Technical University in Prague, Konviktská 20 Street, 110 00 Prague, Czech Republic,

Bibliografia

• 1. EN 50716. Railway Applications - Requirements for software development. Brussels: CENELEC.
• 2. Huysmans Johan, Karel Dejaeger, Christophe Mues, Jan Vanthienen, Bart Baesens. 2011. „An empirical evaluation of the comprehesibility of decision table, tree and rule based predictive models”. Decision Support Systems 51(1): 131-154. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dss.2010.12.003.
• 3. Jorgensen Paul C. 2010. Modeling Software Behavior: A Craftsman’s Approach. Boca Raton: CRC Press. ISBN: 978-1-4200-8076-6.
• 4. King Peter J.H. 1967. „Decision Tables”. The Computer Journal 10(11): 135-142. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/comjnl/10.2.135.
• 5. King Peter J.H. 1969. „The interpretation of limited entry decision table format and relationships among conditions”. The Computer Journal 12(4): 320-326. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/comjnl/12.4.320.
• 6. Pooch Udo W. 1974. „Translation of Decision Tables”. ACM Computing Surveys 6(2): 125-151. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/356628.356630.
• 7. Wiegers Karl, Joy Beatty. 2013. Software Requirements. Redmond: Microsoft Press. ISBN: 978-0-7356-7966-5.

Identyfikatory

DOI

10.20858/sjsutst.2024.125.6