Supporting Visualization and Analysis of Requirements Evolution
Sze Chern Tan · 2009
Requirements evolution captures information about how software systems change as a result of changes in requirements. The goal of this project is to identify how existing requirements engineering methods, tools and models can be extended to to support the analysis of requirements evolution. It is hoped that by providing a tool for analyzing requirements evolution, our work will spur further research on requirements evolution, thereby enriching the field of requirements engineering. We present a design which supports requirements evolution analysis within conventional requirement engineering processes by building on the models proposed by researchers. We implement this design as a plug-in for the Eclipse IDE. Our plug-in supports requirement analysis by providing visualizations as means of presenting requirement changes and evolution.