Estimation of Degree of Behavioral Profile Consistency between the Business and System Requirement

Software process models are used to systematically develop the software so as to deliver the maintenance-free software product. There are many process models like waterfall model, spiral model, V-model etc. in the literature. The requirement analysis stage is common for all the models. For any software engineering project to be effective, it is necessary to successfully translate the business requirements into system specification which is the main objective of requirement analysis phase. Therefore it is mandatory to align the business requirement and system specification. To do so, it is essential to know the behavioral profile of business requirement at the requirement analysis stage of software process models. The behavioral profile aims at capturing the behavioral aspects of a process in a fine-grained manner which provides an accurate insight in to behavior of a process. Based on the behavior profile of business requirement, the system specification is aligned with business requirement. But it is very difficult to put together the different perspectives of the business analyst and system analyst and also relate the properties of all the requirements together. Hence achieving high degree of consistency between the business requirement and system specification is very difficult because of the misalignment between them. Hence, in this paper, we estimate the degree of consistency between the business requirement and system specification. It is observed that the methodology used for estimating the degree of consistency provides better performance improvement in requirement analysis phase of any process model