There is an increasing interest in research addressing issues of global software development. Specifying software requirements is a communication-intensive collaborative activity that is increasingly performed across cultural, language and time zone boundaries. While inadequate communication significantly impacts the bridging of geographical distance between stakeholders, the cultural differenc...

This paper describes RARE (Reuse-Assisted Requirements Elicitation), a method enabling software requirements engineers to process informal software requirements effectively. RARE’s object is to assist analysts in transforming requirements expressed in natural language into a comprehensive collection of rigorous specifications that can be used as a starting point in software development. However...

In the context of Requirements Engineering (RE), both goal-driven and scenario-based approaches have proven useful for eliciting, justifying and validating system requirements. In order to overcome some of the deficiencies and limitations of these approaches when used in isolation, proposals have been made to couple goals and scenarios together. The CREWS1-L'Ecritoire approach advocates bi-dire...

Software requirements are changed by various factors. Stakeholders that are analysed in traditional requirements engineering are mainly requesters or decision makers with regard to the requirements specifications. Such stakeholders are selected as intentional actors in the i* framework. The novel point of this paper is that we focus on the world of parties who are the environmental factors of t...