A method to navigate interview-driven software requirements elicitation work: an efficacy evaluation of the method from the viewpoint of efficiency

  • Authors:

  • Takatoshi Yamanaka;Seiichi Komiya

  • Affiliations:

  • Graduate School of Engineering, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan;Graduate School of Engineering, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan

  • Venue:
  • ACC'10 Proceedings of the 2010 international conference on Applied computing conference
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

A software development task is performed in accordance with requirements specification. Therefore, requirements elicitation work in order to prepare requirements specification is a very important task. However, it is very difficult to elicit user requirements for software development without omissions or errors, mainly because customers are often ignorant for software development technologies, and novice SEs do not have enough knowledge of the business contents for the software development. In order to solve this problem, the authors recognize requirements elicitation work as interview techniques, and are proposing a method to navigate interview-driven software requirements elicitation work conducted by SEs to customers so that SEs are able to elicit user requirements without omissions or errors [4]. Then, the effectiveness of the proposed method was proven by conducting the experiment to compare completeness and accuracy of the elicited requirements. This paper discusses effectiveness of the proposed method from the viewpoint of efficiency of requirements elicitation work by conducting the comparative experiment in regards to the cases that the method proposed in the Reference [4] was used and not used.