Procedure to validate nonfunctional requirements in Information Management Systems
Niurka Martínez Durán, Alexander Delgado Gutierrez, Jorge Emilio Escala Maceo · 2015
For a proper development of Information Management Systems it is required a validation of non-functional requirements. This activity is performed by the Quality Center for Technological Solutions (CALISOFT, Spanish acronyms), not from the initial stages, but once the system is implemented. Provoking mistakes made in specification of requirements to be dragged until the end, with an impact at every stage of the software development. The present work aims at designing a procedure to validate non-functional requirements of Information Management Systems. For that, it was made an analysis of the requirements engineering, specifically for the validation stage. Three phases of the procedure design were identified, each one of them containing: activities, responsible, participants, input and output artefacts and technique to be used. It was also proposed a set of metrics to assess the quality of the non-functional requirements following the ISO/IEC 9126 standard. The proposal in applied to the Integral Solution for Project Management and Centralized Actions (SIGEPAC by Spanish acronyms) Finally, the result was a procedure to validate non-functional requirements, allowing detecting and correcting mistakes since the beginning.