Improving the Requirements Process
Pete Sawyer, Ian Sommerville, Stephen Viller · 1998
The state-of-the practice in requirements engineering is currently such that organisations wishing to improve their requirements processes find it hard to discover, evaluate and apply good practice. Good practice certainly exist but dissemination of practical experience is poor. Standards coverage of the requirements process is also patchy. This paper describes the Requirements Engineering Good Practice Guide which attempts to fill this gap by disseminating good requirements practice within a process improvement framework. The work is motivated by the authors' judgement that it is timely to exploit industry's interest in software process improvement as a vehicle for raising the profile of good requirements practice. 2 Improving the Requirements Process Pete Sawyer, Ian Sommerville and Stephen Viller Lancaster University [sawyer, is, viller]@comp.lancs.ac.uk Abstract The state-of-the practice in requirements engineering is currently such that organisations wishing to improve their requirements processes find it hard to discover, evaluate and apply good practice. Good practice certainly exist but dissemination of practical experience is poor. Standards coverage of the requirements process is also patchy. This paper describes the Requirements Engineering Good Practice Guide which attempts to fill this gap by disseminating good requirements practice within a process improvement framework. The work is motivated by the authors' judgement that it is timely to exploit industry's interest in software process improvement as a vehicle for raising the profile of good requirements practice. 1.