User Requirements for Mission-Critical Application – The SECRICOM Case
Shaun O’Neill, Jim Strother, Jan Zych, Wojciech Wojciechowicz · Repozytorium Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań) · 2012
The SECRICOM Project as a communication system for operational crisis management, requires paying significant attention to the requirements engineering phase. Any mistakes made during the requirements gathering phase may affect the subsequent software development phases, which creates excessive operational risks for the users of the system. These types of risks – as in any other critical systems – could have serious consequences, such as inefficiency of rescue actions and loss of lives. This article presents the requirements engineering process, which was defined and carried out for the needs of the SECRICOM project. It describes the system’s environment (the crisis management reference structure and the main organizational rules) and its impact on the developed. As a result, a requirements engineering process for SECRICOM is proposed. Finally, main points of gathered requirements are presented.