ProjectIT-Requirements, a Formal and User-oriented Approach to Requirements Specification

Software requirements engineering is an essential activity for the successful development of information systems. The outcome of this activity is not always successful, which is visible in the lack of software quality, costs and schedules overruns. Although the efforts made and the initiatives proposed, there is not a widely accepted practice or standard in this area, comparable to what we have achieved, for example, in the modeling activities. This paper briefly describes the state of the art in the area of requirements specification, explains the motivation to develop a new initiative, which we have called “ProjectIT-Requirements” and enumerates the goals we want to achieve with the project, the context in which it integrates and the results obtained from the development of an initial prototype.