Using hypermedia in requirements engineering practice

  • Authors:

  • Hermann Kaindl

  • Affiliations:

  • Siemens AG Österreich, PSE, Geusaugasse 17, A-1030 Vienna, Austria

  • Venue:
  • The New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

In the literature, proposals can be found to use hypermedia for requirements engineering. The major technical and commercial constraints for wide-spread application are removed now, but there is little knowledge generally available yet on how exactly such approaches can be usefully applied in industrial practice, or what the advantages and issues to be solved are. So, we report on a case study of using hypermedia 'real-time' in the requirements phase of an important real-world project inside our environment, where several ways of applying hypermedia were tried with varying success. Since the resulting hypermedia repository can be fully automatically exported into a Web representation, several versions were made available on the intranet at different stages. While this case study may serve as a data point in the space of such applications, we also discuss reflections on this experience with the motivation of helping practitioners apply hypermedia successfully in requirements engineering. In a nutshell, this paper presents some experience from using hypermedia in requirements engineering practice, and a critical discussion of advantages and issues involved.