A Framework for Requirements Elicitation Techniques Selection

Requirements elicitation is concerned with the extraction of users’ requirements, which involves cognitive, social, communication, and technical issues. There are many techniques to elicit requirements each having its strengths and weaknesses. However, some of them are misused, others are never used and only a few are applied again and again. The reason is that analysts have a difficulty of deciding what elicitation techniques to use in a particular software development project due to lack of information regarding the available elicitation techniques, their usefulness, and how suitable they are to the project. This paper presents a framework, which will assist analysts in the selection of elicitation techniques that best fit the goal of elicitation session, the project environment and the problem domain. When applied, this framework provides ranked list of elicitation techniques which are suitable for the project.