Culture Effect on Requirements Elicitation Practice in Developing Countries
Ayman Sadig, Abd‐El‐Kader Sahraoui · International Journal of Software Engineering & Applications · 2017
Requirement elicitation is a very important step into developing any new application.This paper will examine the culture effect on requirement elicitation in developing countries.This is a unique research that will look at requirement elicitation process in 10 different parts of the world including Arab word, India, China, Africa and South America.The focus is how the culture affects (RE) and makes every place has its own practice of RE.The data were collect through surveys and direct interviews.The results show astonishing culture effect on RE.The conclusion is that culture effects deeply the technique gets chosen for requirement elicitation.If you are doing RE in Thailand, it will be very different from RE in Arab world.For example in Thailand respect for leader is critical and any questioning of manager methods will create a problem while in Arab world decision tree is favourite RE technique because visual are liked much more than documents.