XML_DocTracker: Generating Software Requirements Specification (SRS) from XML Schema

Abstract

Agile software development methodology is an iterative and incremental method in making interactions more important than process and tools. The method also emphasizes more on developing software rather than making a comprehensive documentation. Therefore, web developers like to adapt agile software development methodology in their web development. The reason is because the methodology delivers web application faster than the traditional software development methodology. As advantages of this method, web application is developed in a short time. Although these make huge benefits, the most important thing in software development life cycle has been ignored. That is, documentation process in capturing requirements and design. Therefore, this paper presents a tool named XML_DocTracker for generating the software requirements specification (SRS) from XML schema as well as addressing the versioning problems during generating the SRS. XML_DocTracker is implemented based on the framework for transformation rules from XML Schema. The framework also addresses the versioning factor using traceability for detecting the document changes. Based on the framework, XML_DocTracker is developed and the tool is able to generate the SRS from the XML schema as well as able to detect document changes in SRS due to traceability factor that is embedded inside the tool. The tool can be used for software community who want to generate the SRS from the source codes if the SRS did not exist for that particular software. This paper contribution is detecting new type of element evolution in SRS when new XML schema version is introduced.