Enriching Web Requirements Analysis by Adding Style Factor into UML

Abstract

As requirement engineering is considered to be the most important phase in softwaredevelopment process because of the high cost impact of repairing requirement phase errors,therefore web requirement engineering is known to be one of the most popular researchareas today. By observing most of the conducted researches it can be concluded that theyfocus on the application of user experience from content, navigational and presentationalpoint of view.UML (Unified Modeling Language) is a general purpose visual modelinglanguage for specifying, constructing and documenting systems, which can be usedin all major application domains and implementation platforms.In this paper a new dimension in the UML user experience modeling will be presentedwhich represents the style factor or by other words the web theme. Every company, businessor corporation has its own styling factors which are essential for the success of the institute’smission, and therefore should be referred to as ‘requirements’. This new dimension will betranslated into a new web style diagram with all the associated relationships and constrains.The web style diagram will enable the customer (institute requesting the web site orapplication) to ensure that the resulting web site or application will meet their style identity.