Lesson 2

Requirement Analysis
 the most important part of your system

help you determine the actual needs of

stakeholders
Requirement
Analysis

enable you to communicate with the stakeholders in

a language they understand
 has a Specific Goal

has a Specific Input

Requireme
nt Analysis
has a Specific Output

Uses resources
 Has a number of activities to
be performed in some order

Requireme May affect more than

nt Analysis one organization unit
Creates value of some
kind for the customer
Requirement Analysis Techniques

analyze

understand

make required changes to

that workflow or process
 Business
process IDEF (Integrated
Data flow Definition for Workflow
modeling Technique
diagram Function
notation Modeling)
(BPMN)

UML (Unified Role Activity

Colored Petri Object oriented
Modeling Diagrams- Nets (CPN) methods
Language) (RAD)

Flow chart
Gantt Charts Gap Analysis
technique
 Flow objects

Business
Connecting objects
process
modeling
notation Swim lanes
(BPMN)
Artifacts
 Who is performing these
activities?
Business
process
modeling
notation What data elements are
(BPMN) required for these activities?
Example of
BPMN
 used for specification

UML
(Unified development
Modeling
Languag visualization
e)
documenting of software
system
 State

UML Object
(Unified
Modeling Activity
Languag
e)
Class diagram
 use case diagram

interaction diagram
UML
(Unified class diagram
Modeling
Languag component diagram
e) sequence diagram
Example
of UML
 visual
representation

sequential flow and

Flow control logic
chart
1. Linear
techniqu
e 2. Top-down
3. cross-
functional
 used for representing
data flows

Flow system
interactions
chart
techniqu advantage :
e
easy to read and
write
Example
of Flow
chart
 show how data is
processed

Components:
Data flow Process
diagram Flow
Store
Terminator
 logical
data flow shows system's activities
diagram
physical
shows a system's
data flow infrastructure
diagram
Components of DFD
 similar to flowchart
type

Role requires a deep

Activity knowledge of process
Diagrams
- (RAD) to identify roles
 The components of
RAD:
Role
activities
Activity
Diagrams
External events
- (RAD)
states
 graphical representation
of a schedule
helps to
coordinate
Gantt
plan
Charts
track specific tasks
in a project
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