This poster was presented at REFSQ’12 in Essen, Germany and highlights our vision for this project: investigating patterns of requirements related discussions that can help projects continually monitor the health of requirements-driven collaboration.
Introduction
Effective collaboration during Requirements Engineering is essential for project success and includes
- the discussion and negotiation of requirements with dierent stakeholders,
- deriving, assigning, and scheduling tasks and subtasks from these requirements.
Problem:
- Existing requirements management tools offer limited support.
- Practitioners rely on a combination of collaboration tools such as email and issue-trackers.
- No overview of the state of the requirements-related discussion.
- Lost opportunity in leveraging the wealth of requirements-related communication data available in projects.
Research Goal
In our research we aim on investigating patterns of requirements related discussions that can help projects continually monitor the health of requirements-driven collaboration.
Research Method
Based on a framework for analyzing requirements-driven collaboration [1], we offer to analyze requirements-driven communication by developing stakeholder requirements centric social networks (RCSN). fpn
Based on our ability to automatically detect requirements clarication in this communication (by using machine learning, c.f. [2]), we can identify patterns of requirements clarication.
Anticipated benefits for software engineering practice
- Support for Seeking Domain Experts as well as Technical Experts
- Identifying the brokers of requirements related information to make project managers aware of critical people in a project
- Assessing the health of requirements and their development.
References
- Damian, D., Kwan, I., Marczak, S.: Requirements-driven collaboration: Leveraging the invisible relationships between requirements and people. In: Mistrik, I., Grundy, J., Hoek, A., and Whitehead, J. (eds.) Collaborative Software Engineering. 57-76. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg (2010).
- Knauss, E., Houmb, S., Schneider, K., Islam, S., Jürjens, J.: Supporting Requirements Engineers in Recognising Security Issues. In: Proceedings of REFSQ’11. Springer, Essen, Germany (2011).
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