VISUAL REQUIREMENT REPRESENTATION

Abstract

Multimedia technology has played an important role in modern computing deu to its friendly user interaction as well as its naturally fitting on real world modeling. Reusable software components are the basic building blocks for software construction based on the software reuse practice. We extended reusable software components to incorporate iwth multimedia. In other words, the reusable software components include not only code and documents, but also voice narration, animation sequences and message mechanisms. We called such software components as Multimedia Reusable Components (MRCs). Based on these developed MRCs, a novel software requirement representation paradigm is introduced. With this novel representation paradigm for reuqirement representation, one can vies the software requirement representation as sequnces of animation instead of reading voluminous softwarre requirements. Such a novel software requirement representation paradigm will provide users a visual effect and to have an earluer feedback from users. Also, it will provide an easy and natural form of the communication between designers and users. In this paper we propose a visual software construction paradigm based on multimediareusable components and implement a visual requirement authoring tool. Also , an assessment of the proposed approach is discussed.