SMiLe: uma notação textual modular para modelos iStar

Abstract

A modern society, progressively, provides increasingly sociotechnical environments through of complex systems. This complexity is to due to the large number of parties interacting in a non-simple way, given the properties of these parts and the laws governing these interactions. In addition to this circumstance, the Software Engineering reinforces that the universe of information needed to perform a broader modeling, and involves more dimensions of already consolidated: static and dynamic. Thus, the iStar framework emerges with an ontology capable of capturing and represent intentional and social information of the environment analyzed in two graphic models: Strategic Dependency (SD) and Strategic Reasoning (SR). However, this same framework does not offer alternatives to improve the understanding of its graphic models, when these represent a large number of parts of these environments. Therefore, the objective of this dissertation was to offer an alternative to the iStar framework to deal with the complexity provided by the complex systems, in order to positively influence the understanding and learning of the iStar models. To this end, a textual notation has been developed to understand social information through an interdependent structure. In the developed evaluation, it was observed the relevance of this textual notation for the graphic models as follows: (i) a complementary alternative for reading of the graphic models, as well as (ii) the importance of building these models from interdependent structures.