TY - GEN
T1 - Performing requirements elicitation activities supported by quality ontologies
AU - Al Balushi, Taiseera Hazeem
AU - Sampaio, Pedro R.Falcone
AU - Dabhi, Divyesh
AU - Loucopoulos, Pericles
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - The requirements elicitation phase is often regarded as the most critical stage of the entire software engineering effort with strong evidence suggesting that increasing the effectiveness of requirements analysts and reducing requirements elicitation errors may be the key to improve project outcomes and deliver high quality software This paper presents a requirements elicitation approach and associated tool aimed at empowering requirements analysts with a knowledge repository that helps in the process of capturing precise non-functional requirements specifications during elicitation interviews The approach is based on the application of functional and nonfunctional domain ontologies (quality ontologies) to underpin the elicitation activities We also discuss how the approach and tool are being used to effectively support the requirements elicitation stage of the new student intranet project of the University of Manchester (Manchester Unity Web Project).
AB - The requirements elicitation phase is often regarded as the most critical stage of the entire software engineering effort with strong evidence suggesting that increasing the effectiveness of requirements analysts and reducing requirements elicitation errors may be the key to improve project outcomes and deliver high quality software This paper presents a requirements elicitation approach and associated tool aimed at empowering requirements analysts with a knowledge repository that helps in the process of capturing precise non-functional requirements specifications during elicitation interviews The approach is based on the application of functional and nonfunctional domain ontologies (quality ontologies) to underpin the elicitation activities We also discuss how the approach and tool are being used to effectively support the requirements elicitation stage of the new student intranet project of the University of Manchester (Manchester Unity Web Project).
KW - Non-functional requirements
KW - Ontologies
KW - Requirements elicitation
KW - Requirements engineering
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84870725488
SN - 9781627486606
T3 - 18th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, SEKE 2006
SP - 343
EP - 348
BT - 18th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, SEKE 2006
T2 - 18th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, SEKE 2006
Y2 - 5 July 2006 through 7 July 2006
ER -