USING A GROUPWARE SPACE FOR DISTRIBUTED REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING
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1998-02-01
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Requirements engineering (RE) is a necessary part of the software development
process, as it helps customers and designers identify necessary system
requirements. If these stakeholders are separated by distance, we argue that
a distributed groupware environment supporting a cooperative requirements
engineering process must be supplied that allows them to negotiate software
requirements. Such a groupware environment must support aspects of joint
work relevant to requirements negotiation: synchronous and asynchronous
collaboration, telepresence, and teledata. It should also add explicit
support for a structured RE process, which includes the team's ability to
discuss multiple perspectives during requirements acquisition and
traceability. We chose the TeamWave software platform as an environment that
supplied the basic collaboration capabilities, and tailored it to fit the
specific needs of RE.
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Computer Science