Requirement Engineering for Mobile Information Systems
John Krogstie · 2010
Abstract Requirements Engineering for business solutions have so far primarily dealt with the elicitation, specification, validation, management and change to information systems to be accessed through PCs and workstations. As mobile solutions are applied in more and more situations, additional challenges will meet those that specify the requirements to the applications running on mobile technology. This position paper summarises some of these challenges, and points to areas for research that should receive the attention of the RE community. 1 Introduction Today the PC is only one of many ways of utilising information resources. On one hand the technology is becoming more mobile and ubiquitous, and on the other hand the medium is becoming richer as in interactive TV. This will influence the usage of information resources: Outdoors, away from home or business alone with my personal information appliance, or together with others in front of large, interactive TV screens. Mobility is perhaps the most important market and technological trend within information and communication technology (ICT). For instance, it is projected that in 2004 there will be more mobile devices than PCs connected to the Internet. With the advent of new mobile infrastructures providing higher bandwidth and constant connection to the network from virtually everywhere, the way people use information resources is predicted to be radically transformed.