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A Generation Method of Exceptional Scenarios from a Normal Scenario
1 The author is with the Faculty of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu-shi, 525–8577 Japan. E-mail: ohnishi{at}cs.ritsumei.ac.jp
This paper proposes a method to generate exceptional scenarios from a normal scenario written with a scenario language. This method includes (1) generation of exceptional plans and (2) generation of exceptional scenario by a user's selection of these plans. The proposed method enables users to decrease the omission of the possible exceptional scenarios in the early stages of development. The method will be illustrated with some examples.
Key Words: requirements elicitation, scenario analysis, scenario generation
Manuscript received July 2, 2007. Manuscript revised October 8, 2007.
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