Using Mobile RE Tools to Give End-Users Their Own Voice

  • Authors:

  • Norbert Seyff;Florian Graf;Neil Maiden

  • Affiliations:

  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • RE '10 Proceedings of the 2010 18th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Researchers highlight end-user involvement in system design as an important concept for developing useful and usable solutions. However, end-user involvement in software engineering is still an open-ended topic. Novel paradigms such as service-oriented computing strengthen the need for more active end-user involvement in order to provide systems that are tailored to individual end-user needs. Our work is based on the fact that the majority of end-users are familiar with mobile devices and use an increasing number of mobile applications. A mobile tool enabling end-user led requirements elicitation could be just one of many applications installed on end-users’ mobile devices. In this paper, we present a framework of end-user involvement in requirements elicitation which motivates our research. The main contribution of our research is a tool-supported requirements elicitation approach allowing end-users to document needs in situ. Furthermore, we present first evaluation results to highlight the feasibility of on-site end-user led requirements elicitation.