One of the challenges of requirements engineers is to understand domain issues and elicit requirements effectively. One of the possible strategies is to perform a manual inspection of similar projects to quickly gain leverage of domain concepts underlying the projects. However, this task is time-consuming and limited to the projects at hand. To ensure comprehensive elicitation using more widely...

The elicitation of end-user requirements is primarily focusing on the industry, where companies endeavor to discover and satisfy their customer’s requirements. Increasingly however, companies which are working in the same or in different fields are getting together, in order to do joint research and development, despite the fact that they may be potential competitors. These kinds of projects ha...

This paper introduces an approach to multi-perspective requirements engineering (PREview) which has been designed for industrial use and discusses our practical experience in applying PREview. We have developed a flexible model of viewpoints and, using examples from an industrial application, show how this can be used to organise system requirements derived from radically different sources. We ...

Data warehouse is a subject-oriented, integrated, time-variant, and nonvolatile collection of data to provide the strategic information to the decision makers. Most of the data ware house project fails to meet the business requirements and business goals because of the improper requirement engineering phase. Building a data warehouse is a very challenging task. Data warehouse development can us...

[Context and motivation] During requirements engineering the stakeholder view is typically captured by scenarioand goal models focusing on tasks and goals to be achieved with the software. We believe that it is worthwhile to study more general personal values and attitudes of stakeholders and to relate them to software requirements. [Question/problem] The main questions of such an approach are:...

Requirements engineering is concerned with the identification of the goals to be achieved by the envisioned IS/IT system. The processes involved include three interrelated functions: requirements elicitation, specification and validation. This study represents an exposition of requirements elicitation/specification concepts and challenges targeting the Government Sector. Groups of Project Manag...

Requirements engineering (RE) is often seen as an essential facet in software development. It is a vital process before each project starts. In the context of systems engineering, an understanding and application of systems theory and practice is also relevant to RE. The contexts in which RE takes place habitually involve human activities. Therefore, RE needs to be sensitive to how people perce...

In this paper, we describe the early requirements gathering stage of an EU FP6 project using a distributed scenario-based method. Through the collaborative development of scenarios among project partners in nine different countries, enabling the derivation of requirements for the overall architecture for the system.

Eliciting requirements is well known to be a difficult task. Several strategies exist that makes it possible to elicit information from different information sources. These strategies vary and should be selected in accordance with the situation at hand. For instance, selecting a strategy to a situation where there are available COTS solutions is different from a tailored and specialized softwar...