Abstract:
Automated software engineering has attracted a large
amount of research efforts. The use of object-oriented
methodologies for software systems development has made it
necessary to develop approaches that automate the construction
of different UML models in a semi-automated approach from
textual user requirements. UML use case models represent an
essential artifact that provide a perspective of the system under
analysis or development The development of such use case
models is very crucial in an object-oriented development
methodology. The main principles used in obtaining these models
are described. A natural language processing tool is used to parse
different statements of the user requirements written in Arabic to
obtain lists of nouns, noun phrases, verbs, verb phrases, etc. that
aid in finding potential actors and use cases. A set of steps that
represent our approach for constructing a use case model is
presented.
