Developing task models from informal scenarios

ABSTRACT

The difficulties that designers and developers often have during the development of task models is a strong limitation to their use. Usually the main problem is to identify what is useful for the development of such task models from a lot of informal information. We propose a method, with a related tool, supporting the development of task models able to describe concurrent dynamic activities using an informal scenario as input.

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INDEX TERMS

Keywords:
automatic support for designers, formal and informal representations, task models