Non-Functional Requirement Template for Usability Aspect based on NIMSAD Evaluation Engineering - Boilerplates Template Most Feasible

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In requirement engineering, non-functional requirements describe system behavior characteristics and quality attributes, and templates help stakeholders document, elicit, and trace these requirements. Many existing usability-related templates lack strong standards, producing varied and less expressive usability representations. This study proposes a feasible non-functional requirement template for the usability aspect using the NIMSAD evaluation framework. Templates are compared via general, modeling, and analysis concepts. Results show the Boilerplates template is the most feasible option for usability.

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ABSTRACT

1. INTRODUCTION

2. RELATED WORKS

3. NORMATIVE INFORMATION MODEL-BASED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND DESIGN EVALUATION STYLE

ISSN 2278-3091 Volume 8, No.1.3, 2019 International Journal of Advanced Trends in Computer Science and Engineering Available Online at [http://www.warse.org/IJATCSE/static/pdf/file/ijatcse4081.32019.pdf](http://www.warse.org/IJATCSE/static/pdf/file/ijatcse4081.32019.pdf) [https://doi.org/10.30534/ijatcse/2019/4081.32019](https://doi.org/10.30534/ijatcse/2019/4081.32019) Non-Functional Requirement Template for Usability Aspect based on NIMSAD Evaluation Engineering Noor Atikah Amira Fauzi1, Rohayanti Hassan1*, Muhammad Barja Sanjaya2, Zuraini Ali Shah1, Asraful Syifaa’Ahmad1, Shahreen Kasim3 1 School of Computing, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 Skudai, Johor, Malaysia 2 School of Industrial Engineering, Telkom University, 40257 Bandung, West Java, Indonesia 3Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, 86400, Batu Pahat, Johor, Malaysia, [rohayanti@utm.my](rohayanti@utm.my) ABSTRACT In requirement engineering, non-functional requirement is a requirement that specifies characteristics of system behavior and sys-tem quality attributes. Furthermore, a non-functional requirement template facilitates system stakeholders in better system documentation, system elicitation and system traceability. However, some non-functional requirements may come from many type of requirements document and no stringent standard has been applied that lead to various pattern of non-functional requirements tem-plate. Specifically, in usability requirement, the quality attribute is being ignored and less expressive in majority requirements document. Therefore, this study was motivated to propose the most feasible non-functional requirement template for usability aspect. NIMSAD evaluation is used to obtain the most feasible non-functional requirement template by comparing existing non-functional requirement templates based on the following criteria which are i) general concepts, ii) modeling concepts and iii) analysis concepts. From the NIMSAD evaluation results, it is found that Boilerplates template is the most feasible non-functional requirement tem-plate for usability aspect. Key words : Non-Functional Requirement Template, NIMSAD Evaluation, Usability, System Quality Attribute. 1. INTRODUCTION Non-functional requirement (NFR) template is a set of simple structure that can be used to extract requirement statement. NFR template is used to facilitate the traceability and the elicitation process. Thus, some of researches introduced template which aim to help formulating NFR [1]. Generally, during the system development, NFR need to be tested to know how well the system executes its functions. Usability in NFR is hard to be satisfied because the only way to know the system is usable is by having real users try it out. Furthermore, usability requirement is among NFR that is hard to interpret completely in the template [2]. Therefore, this study has pro-posed an investigation to determine the suitable nonfunctional requirement template for usability aspect. The investigation was conducted based on the Normative Information Model-based Systems Analysis and Design Evaluation (NIMSAD) framework. This paper is organized as follows. In section 2, the related works are given. In section 3, the normative information model-based method based system analysis and design evaluation is presented. The experimental results of comparative evaluation proposed in this paper is also presented in section 4. Finally, our work of this paper is summarized in the last section. 2. RELATED WORKS A successful system depends upon adherence to NFR. When NFR are ignored issues can arise. The challenges in requirement documentation impress NFR being express. The big companies include government sector contain critical NFR for projects. To meet the goal, the idea of extracting NFR easily with use the best and suitable template. The use of a template for non-functional duri

FAQs

Why are non-functional requirement templates important in requirement engineering?

Non-functional requirement templates support better system documentation, elicitation, and traceability among stakeholders.

What problem does the study address for usability in non-functional requirements?

Usability quality attributes are often ignored or insufficiently expressed in existing majority requirements documentation templates.

How does the study determine the most feasible template for usability requirements?

It uses NIMSAD evaluation to compare existing templates using three criteria: general concepts, modeling concepts, and analysis concepts.

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