Home // ICSEA 2011, The Sixth International Conference on Software Engineering Advances // View article

Web-Based Focus Groups for Requirements Elicitation

Authors:
Carla Farinha
Miguel Mira da Silva

Keywords: Requirements Elicitation; Focus Groups; Collaboration Tools

Abstract:
Requirements determine how an Information System should operate. Requirements Engineering errors become failure reasons of the Information System. In this paper we propose a Web-based focus group method to overcome many problems of the requirements elicitation activity. Collaboration is promoted in discussions involving all stakeholders to achieve consensual decisions. The proposal was evaluated with two real-world experiments the results of which reveal the potential of the method. The successful implementation of the proposed method can avoid many limitations of the requirements elicitation traditional methods, such as misunderstandings between stakeholders and analysts

Pages: 504 to 509

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2011

Publication date: October 23, 2011

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4235

ISBN: 978-1-61208-165-6

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Dates: from October 23, 2011 to October 29, 2011