A Guideline for the Requirements Engineering Process of SMEs Regarding to the Development of CPS
Simon Fritz, Felix Weber, Jivka Ovtcharova · 2019
The Fourth Industrial Revolution is in progress and provides a growing interconnectedness of people, machines and products. The fusion of the real and the digital world is based on so-called cyber-physical systems (CPS), which cause a change in product development processes due to their complex and dynamic requirements. In order to shape the change in product development successfully, requirements engineering (RE) plays an increasingly important part. Especially small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are faced with great challenges in this case, as they are no longer able to effectively integrate the large amount of stakeholders and to manage the multitude of dynamic requirements with the commonly used Microsoft Office tools. Regardless of the company size, many companies are faced with the problem of documenting their requirements in a standardized and reusable way. For these reasons, a guideline for a lightweight RE process for SMEs has been developed in the context of this scientific paper, which makes it possible to improve the development process without cost- and time-intensive trainings. For this purpose, the focus was on easily understandable requirements templates. In the course of this, relevant requirements templates from the literature were analyzed, selected and completed with newly developed templates.