Model-Driven Prototyping Based Requirements Elicitation

This paper presents a requirements elicitation approach that is based on model-driven prototyping. Model-driven development fits naturally in evolutionary prototyping because modeling and design are not treated merely as documents but as key parts of the development process. A novel rapid program synthesis approach is applied to speed up the prototype development. MDA, AI planning, and component-based software development techniques are seamlessly integrated together in the approach to achieve rapid prototyping. More importantly, the rapid program synthesis approach can ensure the correctness of the generated code, which is another favorable factor in enabling the development of a production quality prototype in a timely manner.