The stateoftheart of Open Source Requirements Elicitation
Mark Russell Elkins, Brian J. Dupée · 2008
Open source, free software, requirements elicitation, and requirements engineering are introduced prior to considering a concatenation of open source and requirements elicitation as a topic. This review of the literature suggests there is little previous research on this concatenated topic. From the limited literature unearthed there is evidence of non adoption of modern software engineering practice, informal requirements elicitation and engineering, developer led requirements, doubt over the use of formal standards, and open source as a sociotechnical process that may reduce conflict. A previously published suggested process for open source requirements engineering and elicitation is also considered. Finally it is concluded that as open source ideology is producing quality software it might have something different to offer the current stateoftheart in requirements elicitation.