A Survey of Good Practices and Misuses for Modelling with i* Framework

The i* framework has been increasingly used by the requirements engineering community. However, good practices are not always followed. Many papers have presented the use of i* constructs in such ways that results are not coherent with their original specifications. Some cases attempt to adapt the framework to specific needs by misusing its elements. In other situations, misuses are due to wrong interpretations of i* syntax and semantic. Unfortunately, many of these misuses may lead to wrong interpretations of the models by other people using i*. This work carried out a survey on several published papers to collect both good practices and misuses of the framework. It aims to help requirements engineers to use the i* framework in its full capacity.