ContoGram: A Novel Contextual Requirements Engineering Tool

The importance of requirements elicitation in the realm of information engineering, software engineering, RE (Requirements Engineering) or IS (Information Systems) development forms the basis of the system to be developed. This paper presents a structured approach to understanding the big picture of a problem domain as the preliminary criterion for successful development of a verified and validated IS. Present needs are met with a number of contextual diagrams and tools exist to aid the systems analysis process. In this paper, a new approach to understand the context of the problem domain as the initial step in system and requirement analysis is proposed. Conto Gram, a contextual requirement gathering tool, is an approach to understanding the problem domain in a nutshell, and with a bird´s eye view. The proposed tool is presented in this paper in terms of a conceptual description and its application in a mini case-study.