Eliciting required characteristics for usable requirements engineering approaches

Authors:
Kristina Winbladh;Hadar Ziv;Debra J. Richardson
Affiliations:
University of California, Irvine;University of California, Irvine;University of California, Irvine
Venue:
Proceedings of the 2009 ACM symposium on Applied Computing
Year:
2009

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Abstract

It has been reported that many software companies do not use existing requirements engineering approaches. This indicates that there is room and opportunity for improving the usability of existing requirements engineering approaches. This paper describes a market study intended to elicit a set of characteristics that could improve the usability of requirements engineering approaches. The survey is aimed toward software stakeholders such as developers, designers, customers, and managers at various software companies. The survey results are used to define a set of desirable characteristics for usable requirements engineering approaches and to suggest a set of guidelines that could help achieve the desirable characteristics.