Suitability of Business Process Modeling Methods for Requirements Elicitation

Accurate identification and documentation of requirements for software development is fundamental to successful project implementation. Business process models help to clearly define and document the steps involved in a process, providing an opportunity to use the models for deriving system requirements. Thus, selecting appropriate business process modeling methods or languages for requirements identification can significantly impact the quality of the final software product. The purpose of this paper is to examine several business process modeling languages with the purpose of showing and comparing their potential to help derive functional and non-functional software requirements out of business process models.