Paper accepted in the Information Systems Journal (my first Q1!!!!!!!!)

Verifying Goal-Oriented Specifications Used in Model-Driven Development Processes Giovanni Giachetti , Beatriz Marín, Lidia López, Xavier Franch, and Oscar Pastor

Summary. Goal-oriented requirements engineering promotes the use of goals to elicit, elaborate, structure, specify, analyze, negotiate, document and modify requirements. Thus, goal-oriented specifications are essential to capture the objectives that the system to be developed should achieve. However, the application of goal-oriented specifications into Model-Driven Development (MDD) processes is still handcrafted, not aligned in the automated flow from models to code. In other words, it is necessary the experience of analysts and designers to manually transform the input goal-oriented models into system models for code generation (models compilation). Some authors have proposed guidelines to facilitate and partially automate this translation, but there is a lack of techniques to assess the adequacy of goal-oriented models as starting point of MDD processes. In this paper, we present and evaluate a verification approach that guarantees the automatic, correct and complete transformation of goal-oriented models into design models used by specific MDD solutions. In particular, this approach has been put into practice by adopting a well-known goal-oriented modeling approach, the i* framework, and an industrial MDD solution called Integranova.

WER2016 is over, we will see you at WER 2017

Thanks to all the authors for choosing WER 2016, we had a good time in Quito.

Congratulations to the best paper authors.

iStar Workshop accepted at RE 2016

This year I'm organising the International Workshop of i* jointly to Yijun Yu. You can find the workshop details at iStar16 website.

The workshop will be in-conjunction with the 24th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE 2016).

Paper accepted at 28th International Conference on Advance Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE 2016)

OSSAP - a Situational Method for Defining Open Source Software Adoption Processes

Lidia López, Dolors Costal,Jolita Ralyté,Xavier Franch, Lucía Méndez, Maria Carmela Annosi

Abstract Organizations are increasingly becoming Open Source Software (OSS) adopters, either as a result of a strategic decision or just as a consequence of some techno-logical choices. The strategy followed to adopt OSS shapes organizations’ busi-nesses; therefore methods to assess such impact are needed. In this paper, we propose OSSAP, a method for defining OSS Adoption business Processes that has been built using a Situational Method Engineering (SME) approach. We use SME to combine two well-known modelling methods, namely goal-oriented models (using i*) and business process models (using BPMN), with a pre-existing catalogue of goal-oriented OSS adoption strategy models. First, we de-fine a repository of reusable method chunks, including the guidelines to apply them. Then, we define OSSAP as a composition of those method chunks to help organizations to improve their business processes in order to integrate the best fit-ting OSS adoption strategy. The approach is illustrated with an example of appli-cation in a big telecommunications company.

Papers selected for WER 2016

We already select the papers to be presented at WER 2016. From the 46 submitted papers, after a fruitfull period of discussion, we finally select 12 paper as full papers, and 3 that will be presented as short papers.

Thanks to all the authors for choosing WER 2016 to submit their work.

See you soon in Quito.