POREI: patterns-oriented requirements elicitation integrated -- proposal of a metamodel patterns-oriented for integration of the requirement elicitation process

  • Authors:

  • Kleber Rocha de Oliveira;Mauro de Mesquita Spínola

  • Affiliations:

  • Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo - Engenharia de Produção;Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo - Engenharia de Produção

  • Venue:
  • EATIS '07 Proceedings of the 2007 Euro American conference on Telematics and information systems
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

The requirements elicitation is essential to the success of software development projects. Many papers have been written that promulgate specific elicitation methods. However, none have yet modeled elicitation in a way that makes clear the critical role played by situational knowledge. This paper presents a unified model of the requirements elicitation process that emphasizes the applying the concepts of patterns as it transforms the current state of the business requirements and the situation to an improved understanding of the requirements and, potentially, a modified situation. One meta-model of requirements elicitation, selection of an appropriate elicitation technique, is also captured in the model. The values of this model are: (a) an improved understanding of elicitation helps analysts improve their elicitation efforts and (b) as we improve our ability to perform elicitation, we improve the likelihood that systems we create will meet their intended customers' needs. These patterns are elicited from coordination and transaction costs economics theories and they are validated through a wide variety of relevant situation.