Automatic Acquisition of Task Models from Object Oriented Design Specifications: A Case Study

Task analysis and modelling have been successfully employed in training, design evaluation, and user documentation productopn. However, building task models from scratch can be a time consuming process. In principle, it is possible to automatically acquire draft task models from system behaviour models defined in object oriented design specifications based on the common semantic ground between the two models. The work presented in this paper is a continuation along this line in order to investigate the feasibility and practicality of this approach. To this aim, a case study is conducted on the BMS system which was designed and developed by a commercial company. Apart from describing problems encountered and lessons learned, we attempt to draw some guidelines to encourage a more disciplined approach to system behaviour modelling.