MENTOR : A computer aided requirements engineering environment

Abstract

In this paper, we present the Computer Aided Requirements Engineering (CARE) environment named MENTOR. This environment offers various viewers, editors and tools and can be customised by a method engineer to any existing requirements engineering methodology. The core component of the environment is the ”Guidance Engine”. It executes — or enacts- in a flexible manner any process model -that we call way-of-working. A way-of-working is defined as an instance of a process meta-model. We illustrate, through a comprehensive example, how MENTOR provides support and guidance based on the execution of process models to both application engineers (who construct system specifications) and to method engineers (who construct ways-of-working) in a flexible and efficient way.