E-Farm Livestock Platform Requirements Engineering Using Loucopoulos and Karakostas Iterative Process Model

Abstract

Global human population growth has forced farms to evolve in order to produce more livestock products more efficiently while also paying attention to public health, environmental sustainability, and animal welfare. However, problems arise when some diseases appear to affect farm animals and large companies providing livestock products dominate the market. It is necessary to develop a platform or application that can be used to solve these two problems, especially for breeders who have farms on a small scale. This study aims to outline the process of understanding engineering requirements by utilizing the Loucopoulos and Karakostas Requirements Engineering Process Model method, which consists of elicitation of requirements, specification of requirements, as well as validation and verification of requirements. The development process is carried out by hiring breeders and potential customers to determine the priority needs of the platform. The results showed that of the 25 defined functional needs, there were 22 final functional needs that were validated with values above 50%. The E Farm platform should be further developed based on the defined demands since a total of 22 validated needs have been determined to be able to represent 88% of the needs required by users.