Requirements Engineering provides an important basis for estimating time and effort in software development projects. Software requirements give a significant measure of product size to be developed. The University of Informatics Sciences (UCI) has an estimation method, which, in order to gain accuracy, incorporates a second estimate after the requirements phase to have more detailed technical ...

Requirements engineering is one of the most critical phases in software development processes. Requirements are verbalizing decision alternatives which are negotiated by stakeholders. In this paper we present the results of an empirical analysis of the effects of applying group recommendation technologies to requirements negotiation. This analysis has been conducted within the scope of software...

Introduction: Quality and knowledge-based human resources are the most important competitive advantage and the scarcest source in today's knowledge-based economy. Hence, the development of the capabilities, expertise, and commitment of well-trained employees is considered the most important management challenge in our time. The present study was conducted to investigate the role of Management S...

0950-5849/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier B.V. A http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2012.07.011 ⇑ Corresponding author. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (S.T. Ac te.uam.es (J.W. Castro), [email protected] (N. Juristo). Context: To develop usable software we need to understand the users that will interact with the system. Personas is a HCI technique that gathers information about users in...

The guidelines for Requirements Management have been documented many times formally but the actual problems faced by the software industry are quite different. Through research it is found that most of the software projects fail before they are completed or if they do reach completion their quality is not up to the mark. The aim of this Research study is to identify the loopholes in the require...

Some systems failures are due to defects in manufacturing and design, however that there are a significant number of system failures which result from errors, omissions and inconsistencies in the system requirements. We thus need methods to support a ‘safe’ requirements engineering process whose objectives are to specify system requirements such that system states which compromise safety are av...

Requirements elicitation is widely regarded as the most challenging activity within the scope of requirements engineering. The activity concerns the understanding of problems that a system should address, which later leads to the identification of system requirements. As an abstract process, its effectiveness is greatly influenced by the credibility and suitability of the stakeholders involved....

OBJECTIVE Within translational research projects in the recent years large biobanks have been established, mostly supported by homegrown, proprietary software solutions. No general requirements for biobanking IT infrastructures have been published yet. This paper presents an exemplary biobanking IT architecture, a requirements specification for a biorepository management tool and exemplary illu...

This document presents the business requirement of Unified University Inventory System (UUIS) in Technology-independent manner. All attempts have been made in using mostly business terminology and business language while describing the requirements in this document. Very minimal and commonly understood Technical terminology is used. Use case approach is used in modeling the business requirement...

One of the challenges of requirements engineers is to understand domain issues and elicit requirements effectively. One of the possible strategies is to perform a manual inspection of similar projects to quickly gain leverage of domain concepts underlying the projects. However, this task is time-consuming and limited to the projects at hand. To ensure comprehensive elicitation using more widely...