[Meh10] A Quality Pattern Based Approach for the Analysis and Design of Information Systems

Mémoire de Thèse : Soutenue le: 03 September 2010, pp. 240, pp.: Directeur:Isabelle Comyn-Wattiau et Samira Si-said Cherfi
Rapporteur 1:Professor Geert Poels Ghent University - Belgium
Rapporteur 2:Professor Oscar Pastor Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
Membre du jury:Professor Mokrane Bouzeghoub, PRISM - UVSQ, France
Membre du jury:Doctor Nicolas Prat, ESSEC - France
Membre du jury:Professor Camille Rosenthal-sabroux, Lamsade- Daupfine - France, : A Quality Pattern Based Approach for the Analysis and Design of Information Systems,

Auteurs: K. Mehmood

Mots clés: Keywords: Conceptual Model Quality, Quality Evaluation, Quality Assessment, Quality Improvement, Quality Criteria, Quality Framework, Quality Patterns, Quality Attributes, Metrics

Résumé: Conceptual models (CM) serve as the blueprints of information systems and their quality plays decisive role in the success of the end system. It has been witnessed that majority of the IS change-requests result due to deficient functionalities in the information systems. Therefore, a good analysis and design method should ensure that CM are correct and complete, as they are the communicating mediator between the users and the development team. Our approach targets the problems related to conceptual modeling quality by proposing a comprehensive solution. We designed multiple artifacts for different aspects of CM quality. These artifacts include the following: i. Formulation of comprehensive quality criteria (quality attributes, metrics, etc.) by federating the existing quality frameworks and identifying the quality criteria for gray areas. Most of the existing literature on CM quality evaluation represents disparate and autonomous quality frameworks proposing non-converging solutions. Thus, we synthesized (existing concepts proposed by researchers) and added the new concepts to formulate a comprehensive quality approach for conceptual models that also resulted in federating the existing quality frameworks. ii. Formulation of quality patterns to encapsulate past-experiences and good practices as the selection of relevant quality criteria (including quality attributes and metrics) with respect to a particular requirement (or goal) remains trickier for a non-expert user. These quality patterns encapsulate valuable knowledge in the form of established and better solutions to resolve quality problems in CM. iii. Designing of the guided quality driven process encompassing methods and techniques to evaluate and improve the conceptual models with respect to a specific user requirement or goal. Our process guides the user in formulating the desired quality goal, helps him/her in identifying the relevant quality patterns or quality attributes with respect to the quality goal and finally the process helps in evaluating the quality of the model and propose relevant recommendations for improvement. iv. Development of a software prototype â€œCM-Qualityâ€. Our prototype implements all the above mentioned artifacts and proposes a workflow enabling its users to evaluate and improve CMs efficiently and effectively. We conducted a survey to validate the selection of the quality attributes through the above mentioned federating activity and also conducted three step detailed experiment to evaluate the efficacy and efficiency of our overall approach and proposed artifacts.

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BibTeX

@phdthesis {
	Meh10,
	title	=	"{A Quality Pattern Based Approach for the Analysis and Design of Information Systems}",
	author	=	"K. Mehmood",
	year	=	2010,
	pages	=	"240",
	address	=	"{CEDRIC Laboratory, Paris, France}",
	note	=	"{ Directeur:Isabelle Comyn-Wattiau et Samira Si-said Cherfi Rapporteur 1:Professor Geert Poels Ghent University - Belgium Rapporteur 2:Professor Oscar Pastor Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain Membre du jury:Professor Mokrane Bouzeghoub, PRISM - UVSQ, France Membre du jury:Doctor Nicolas Prat, ESSEC - France Membre du jury:Professor Camille Rosenthal-sabroux, Lamsade- Daupfine - France}",
}