Integrating conflicting requirements in process modeling: A survey and research directions
(R)equirements in process modelling have traditionally been collected separately for different business functions and then integrated into an overall specification. The recent orientation to a process perspective in managing business activities has emphasized early integration, by concurrently analysing business processes and requirements. Accordingly, requirements analysis methodologies should take into account these new demands. In the paper, we discuss these new integration needs. Traditional methods for requirements integration from database design are analysed and unfulfilled integration needs are highlighted. Then, other research fields are surveyed that deal with problems similar to integration and offer interesting results: recent developments in database design, software engineering and requirements reuse. Finally, we compare the different contributions and indicate open research directions.
software process modeling information systems requirements analysis view integration