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Requirements Elicitation1
Lecture # 9
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Requirements Engineering Process
Requirements
Elicitation
Requirements
Analysis and
Negotiation
Requirements
Specification
Requirements
Validation
User Needs,
Domain Information,
Existing System
Information, Regulations,
Standards, Etc.
Requirements
Document
Agreed
Requirements
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Requirements Elicitation - 1
Elicit means to gather, acquire, extract,
and obtain, etc.
Requirements elicitation means
gathering requirements or discovering
requirements
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Requirements Elicitation - 2
Activities involved in discovering the
requirements for the system
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Basics of Knowledge Acquisition
Reading
Listening
Asking
Observing
These are the sources of knowledge
acquisition
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Requirements Elicitation
Techniques Individual
Group Modeling
Cognitive
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Problems in Requirements
Elicitation Problems of scope
Problems of understanding Problems of volatility
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Problems of Scope
The boundary of the system is ill-
defined
Unnecessary design information may
be given
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Problems of Understanding - 1
Users have incomplete understanding
of their needs
Users have poor understanding of
computer capabilities and limitations
Analysts have poor knowledge ofproblem domain
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Problems of Understanding - 2
User and analyst speak differentlanguages
Ease of omitting obviousinformation
Conflicting views of different users
Requirements are often vague anduntestable, e.g., user-friendly androbust
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Problems of Volatility
Requirements evolve over time and
hence there are some requirements
which are bound to change during the
system development process due to
one reason or the other.
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Contexts in Requirements
Elicitation Process
Organization
Environment
Project
Constraints imposed by people
Itis important to consider the context in
which requirements are being elicited.
Requirements elicitation process may be
followed in the following contexts
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Contexts in Requirements
Elicitation Process - 1 Organization
Submitters of input
Users of output
Ways in which the new system change
the business process
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Contexts in Requirements
Elicitation Process - 2 Environment
Hardware and software
Maturity of the target system domain
Certainty of the target systems interfaces
to the larger system
The target systems role in the larger
system
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Contexts in Requirements
Elicitation Process - 3 Project
The attributes of the different stakeholder
communities, such as the end users,sponsors, developers, and requirementsanalysts. Examples of such attributes are:
Management style
Management hierarchy
Domain experience
Computer experience
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Contexts in Requirements
Elicitation Process - 4 The constraints imposed by the people
They are involved in the elicitation
process, e.g., managerial constraints
concerning cost, time, and desired quality
in the target system
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Requirements Elicitation
Guidelines - 1 Assess the business and technical feasibility
for the proposed system
Identify the people who will help specifyrequirements and understand theirorganizational bias
Define the technical environment
Identify domain constraints that limit thefunctionality or performance of the system
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Requirements Elicitation
Guidelines - 2 Define one or more requirements elicitation
methods (interviews, focus groups, team
meetings) Solicit participation from many people so
that requirements are defined from different
points of view; be sure to identify therationale for each requirement that is
recorded
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Requirements Elicitation
Guidelines - 3 Identify ambiguous requirements as
candidates for prototyping
Create usage scenarios to help
customers/users better identify
requirements
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Ethnomethodology
Looks for behaviors that may be different in
a specific culture but which have the same
underlying purpose or meaning Conversational analysis
Measurement of body system functions
Non-verbal behavior studies
Detailed video analysis
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Requirements and Psychology
Errors in statements can happen in two
places
Perception of factsreality
Linguistic representation of one of these
perceptionspersonal reality
To remove these errors, requirementsshould be reviewed (during and after
elicitation)
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Use Case Modeling
Define actors and black-box use cases
The functional requirements of the
system are defined in terms of use
cases and actors
The use case descriptions are abehavioral view
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Summary - 1
Introduced the concept of elicitation andrequirements elicitation process
Basics of knowledge acquisition (reading,listening, asking, & observing)
Knowledge acquisition techniques(individual, group, modeling, cognitive)
Elicitation problems (scope,understandability, volatility)
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Summary - 2
Context (organization, environment,
project, constraints imposed by people)
Guidelines for knowledge acquisition
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References
Requirements Engineering: Processes
and Techniques by G. Kotonya and I.
Sommerville, John Wiley & Sons,
1998