Retrieving Use Case Diagram with Case-based Reasoning Approach

Due to the difficulty of recalling the semi-structure form of use case diagram, applying reusing approach to the requirement analysis process has been being concerned as a complex task. Despite of this fact, there are relatively little attentions found in the research community. Therefore, this paper proposes how Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) – an approach solves new problem from recalling experiences, can be effectively applied to support the use case diagram reuse. In this research, the diagram retrieval method is designed to match the use case diagram by considering two dimensions: use case and actor dimension and relationship dimension. However, in order to present the significant accuracy and practicality of the proposed method, a tool and five comparative sets– including four various dimensional weights and one commercial tool were carefully set up to test in an experiment.