Title :
SmartWiki: Support for high-quality requirements engineering in a collaborative setting
Author :
Knauss, Eric ; Brill, Olesia ; Kitzmann, Ingo ; Flohr, Thomas
Author_Institution :
Software Eng. Group, Leibniz Univ. Hannover, Hannover
Abstract :
Requirements engineering is the refinement of stakeholder wishes to more or less formal requirements. Nowadays this refinement is often done in a distributed environment. In this collaborative setting Wikis are generally helpful. However, without explicit support, it is hard to achieve high quality efficiently. A smart wiki can assume responsibility of these tasks. Our SmartWiki generates context- (and process-) sensitive feedback on requirements. It automatically checks consistence and integrates constructive and analytical quality assurance in a wiki. It also helps to manage tasks, responsibilities, and experiences for organizational learning. In this paper we present our SmartWiki approach and our experiences gathered from several projects in educational and industry projects.
Keywords :
formal specification; groupware; software quality; task analysis; SmartWiki; analytical quality assurance; collaborative setting; constructive quality assurance; context-sensitive feedback; distributed environment; formal requirement; organizational learning; process-sensitive feedback; requirements engineering; task management; Collaboration; Collaborative software; Computer industry; Design methodology; Documentation; Feedback; Programming profession; Prototypes; Quality assurance; Software engineering;
Conference_Titel :
Wikis for Software Engineering, 2009. WIKIS4SE '09. ICSE Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Vancouver, BC
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3742-9
DOI :
10.1109/WIKIS4SE.2009.5069994