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An Evaluation Framework for Requirements Elicitation in Agile Methods

Authors:
Waleed Helmy
Amr Kamel
Osman Hegazy

Keywords: Agile Methods; Requirements Elicitation; Agile Requirements Elicitation

Abstract:
Gathering, understanding and managing requirements is a key factor to the success of a software development effort. There are several requirement techniques available for requirement gathering which can be used with agile development methods. These techniques concentrate on a continuous interaction with the customer to address the evolution of requirements, changing requirements, prioritizing requirements and delivering the most important functionalities first. However, problems have been reported with the use of the agile methods in the area of requirements elicitation particularly with an over reliance on a customer and lack of elicitation guidelines. This paper describe how requirements elicitation is usually done in more conventional software development processes and makes an evaluation framework for the way requirements elicitation can be done in the agile methods and this could result in improvements to agile approaches.

Pages: 588 to 593

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2012

Publication date: November 18, 2012

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4235

ISBN: 978-1-61208-230-1

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Dates: from November 18, 2012 to November 23, 2012