Improving Requirements Engineering by Quality Modelling - A Quality-Based Requirements Engineering Framework

In this paper we describe a structured, goal-oriented, agent-based Requirements Engineering Framework, where quality modelling is adopted to enhance the capability of advanced agentand goal-based requirements engineering techniques to deal with and resolve soft organizational and system issues. The framework assists and drives analysts and stakeholders towards an early, combined definition of desired system functionality and corresponding quality attributes, by providing an environment within which they can easily cooperate. We present examples from a real project to illustrate our framework. ACM Classification: D.2.1 (Software – Software Engineering – Requirements/Specifications)