From User Requirements to User Interfaces: A Methodological Approach

When a software product is designed and implemented, it is very important to assure that the user requirements have been properly represented. To achieve this objective, a guided software production process is needed, starting from the initial requirements engineering activities and through to the resultant software product. In this paper, a methodological approach for generating user interfaces corresponding to the user requirements is introduced. By doing this, we go a step further in the process of properly embedding requirements engineering in to the software production process, because users can validate their requirements as early as possible, through the validation of the user interfaces generated as a software representation of their requirements. Also, these interfaces can be reused for further refinement as a useful starting point in the software development process.

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