Creative Leaf: A Creative iStar Modeling Tool

iStar models allow users to capture high-level social requirements, including alternatives and qualities. Typical approaches advocate discovering model content through traditional Requirements Engineering (RE) elicitation methods, such as interviews, observations, and domain documents. For the typical, familiar space of requirements, such techniques may be sufficient, but stakeholders may not always know the best way to meet their needs, and may have difficultly articulating their goals. Creativity theories and activities have been successfully applied to RE in order to discover both creative and more typical requirements. In this work we describe the web-based Creative Leaf tool that facilitates a combination of established creativity techniques with iStar modeling. Divergent techniques help the discovery of ideas, while selection, evaluation and modeling techniques help to converge over ideas, integrating them into the model and system design.