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Goal sketching: An Agile Approach to Clarifying Requirements

Authors:
Kenneth Boness
Rachel Harrison
Kecheng Liu

Keywords: goal-oriented requirements engineering, agile development, evolving systems.

Abstract:
This paper describes a technique that can be used as part of a simple and practical agile method for requirements engineering. It is based on disciplined goal-responsibility modelling but eschews formality in favour of a set of practicality objectives. The technique can be used together with Agile Programming to develop software in internet time. We illustrate the technique and introduce lazy refinement, responsibility composition and context sketching. Goal sketching has been used in a number of real-world development projects, one of which is described here.

Pages: 1 to 13

Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2008. Used with permission.

Publication date: February 24, 2009

Published in: journal

ISSN: 1942-2628