Understanding and Guiding Requirements Engineering Processes
Colette Rolland · 1996
Requirements engineering (RE) provides the conceptual link between (information) systems and their environment; the state-of-art in RE is insufficient to deal with the new challenges posed by rapid and continuous change in technology and environment. The paper aims at presenting a conceptual framework developed during the NATURE * project to address these challenges in a coherent manner. The framework structures the context and products of RE. and helps to understand and guide the RE process. The paper develops these two aspects, namely understanding the RE process and guiding the RE process. It emphasises the process dimension, introduces the conceptual process meta-model, and shows how it can be mapped to a novel architecture for computer-aided and improvement-oriented requirements engineering. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.