A Proposed Textual Model for i-Star

Despite software engineering community efforts, projects continue to fail. Researches have shown that modeling became more critical due to the growth of complexity and scale of the system. In this context, the i* Framework, a Goal-oriented Requirement Language, is used to model and analyze dependencies and intentions relationships of actors on the observed environment. However, in large-scale projects, i* graphical notation makes the model more complex due to lack of scalability and some ambiguous representations. This paper shows a proposed textual model as a complementary vision of the i* models. Its main objective is achieving a modeling approach that combines text and graphic to i* Framework. We discuss how this proposal can help to mitigate scalability and complexity problems.