A Collaborative Situational Method Engineering Approach for Requirement Gathering

Abstract

This article re-defines traditional requirement engineering processes by performing exhaustive requirement gathering through an interactive and collaborative communication, where stakeholders are equally involved in capturing and finalizing requirements in the scope of a project. It strongly supports concept of re-usability using principals of situational method engineering where methods are tailor-made per requirements from the method repository (maintained in the cloud). Search and selection of appropriate methods meeting stakeholder's interest is performed using concepts of knowledge discovery and data mining methods over a web interface. Knowledge extraction, in the form of a matched set of requirements is performed at every level of a proposed multi-layered framework, as progression towards a desirable method for reuse. This approach will help in overcoming the challenging tasks of identifying relevant requirements, incorporating change requests and minimizing the number of disagreements between stakeholders and developers.