Abstract
The requirements elicitation phase is often regarded as the most critical stage of the entire software engineering effort with strong evidence suggesting that increasing the effectiveness of requirements analysts and reducing requirements elicitation errors may be the key to improve project outcomes and deliver high quality software This paper presents a requirements elicitation approach and associated tool aimed at empowering requirements analysts with a knowledge repository that helps in the process of capturing precise non-functional requirements specifications during elicitation interviews The approach is based on the application of functional and nonfunctional domain ontologies (quality ontologies) to underpin the elicitation activities We also discuss how the approach and tool are being used to effectively support the requirements elicitation stage of the new student intranet project of the University of Manchester (Manchester Unity Web Project).
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | 18th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, SEKE 2006|Int. Conf. Softw. Eng. Knowl. Eng., SEKE |
| Pages | 343-348 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Publication status | Published - 2006 |
| Event | 18th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, SEKE 2006 - San Francisco Bay, CA Duration: 1 Jul 2006 → … |
Conference
| Conference | 18th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, SEKE 2006 |
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| City | San Francisco Bay, CA |
| Period | 1/07/06 → … |
Keywords
- Non-functional requirements
- Ontologies
- Requirements elicitation
- Requirements engineering