DocumentCode :
2468023
Title :
Effectiveness of elicitation techniques in distributed requirements engineering
Author :
Lloyd, Wesley James ; Rosson, Mary Beth ; Arthur, James D.
fYear :
2002
fDate :
2002
Firstpage :
311
Lastpage :
318
Abstract :
Software development teams are often geographically distributed from their customers and end users. This creates significant communication and coordination challenges that impact the effectiveness of requirements engineering. Travel costs, and the local availability of quality technical staff increase the demand for effective distributed software development teams. This research reports an empirical study of how groupware can be used to aid distributed requirements engineering for a software development project. Six groups of seven to nine members were formed and divided into separate remote groups of customers and engineers. The engineers conducted a requirements analysis and produced a software requirements specification (SRS) document through distributed interaction with the remote customers. We present results and conclusions from the research including: an analysis of factors that affected the quality of the software requirements specification document written at the conclusion of the requirements process and the effectiveness of requirements elicitation techniques which were used in a distributed setting for requirements gathering.
Keywords :
formal specification; groupware; software engineering; SRS document; elicitation techniques; geographically distributed teams; groupware; requirements engineering; software development teams; software requirements specification document; travel costs; Collaborative software; Collaborative work; Costs; Performance evaluation; Programming; Software maintenance; Software performance; Software prototyping; Software quality; Spirals;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Requirements Engineering, 2002. Proceedings. IEEE Joint International Conference on
ISSN :
1090-705X
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1465-0
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/ICRE.2002.1048544
Filename :
1048544
Link To Document :
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