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Use case diagrams and scenarios are often used in the requirements elicitation phase in software development. It is difficult for developers to create them based on appropriate stakeholders’ requirements. Meanwhile, stakeholders can survey existing applications to find functions and interactions that are similar to their requirements. This paper proposes a method to generate the bases of use case diagrams from the operation histories of existing applications. Operation histories are divided into operations of individual windows, and the entire window-switching sequence in an existing application is represented as a directed graph. Then the directed graphs are analyzed to extract the window-switching sequences that correspond to use cases. Finally, use case diagrams are generated.
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Shirogane, J. (2017). Generation of Use Cases for Requirements Elicitation by Stakeholders. In: Kim, K., Joukov, N. (eds) Information Science and Applications 2017. ICISA 2017. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 424. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4154-9_65
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