Web-Based Focus Groups for Requirements Elicitation
Carla Sofia e Sá Farinha, Miguel Mira da Silva · International Conference on Software Engineering Advances · 2011
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.