A Program of Research in Requirements Engineering

需求工程研究计划

• 批准号: 923-2013
• 负责人: Madhavji, Nazim
• 金额: $ 1.46万
• 依托单位: University of Western Ontario
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2015-01-01 至 2016-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=568154
• 关键词: Program; Research; Requirements; Engineering

Canadian organisations are increasingly embracing the requirements engineering (RE) discipline in developing software intensive systems. The proposed research addresses several critical areas of RE that need improvement, namely: compliance, lessons learnt, and conflicts. In the area of compliance, this proposal seeks to investigate into: (a) the effort required for ensuring compliance of requirements with regulations and (b) self-checking the compliance of a system against regulations. In the area of lessons learnt, this proposal seeks to investigate into technologies that would enable requirements analysts to: easily capture, share and reuse lessons learnt from projects. In the area of conflicts, this proposal seeks to investigate into the impact of conflicts rooted in RE on software quality and development processes. This research is important because the anticipated outcomes would help in the improvement of RE processes. The key stakeholders who should be interested in this research include: project planners, organisations concerned about the compliance of their systems and services, requirements analysts, and technology developers. We anticipate the following outcomes from this research: a model for estimating the effort needed to ensure that project requirements comply with regulations; tool-support for proactively self-checking, against regulations, the compliance of business operations; maps depicting strong and weak areas of concentration of lessons learnt in the field of requirements engineering; grass-roots technological support for requirements engineers to capture, share and reuse lessons learnt; knowledge on conflicts and their impact on requirements, system architecture, project risks, development costs, and others. The pursued research goals are novel and so the anticipated outcomes would add to the scientific and engineering body of knowledge. Also, Canadian organisations would be able to improve their RE processes through: improved effort-estimates of compliance work; systematic way of checking system compliance; increased and systematic reuse of lessons learnt from grass-roots experience; and improved knowledge of conflicts rooted in RE.

加拿大的组织越来越多地接受需求工程（RE）学科在开发软件密集型系统。拟议的研究涉及可再生能源需要改进的几个关键领域，即：遵守，吸取的教训，和冲突。在遵守方面，本提案力求调查：（a）为确保各项要求符合条例而需要作出的努力;（B）对照条例对系统的遵守情况进行自我检查。在吸取经验教训方面，本建议旨在研究使需求分析师能够轻松获取、分享和重用从项目中吸取的经验教训的技术。在冲突方面，本建议旨在调查可再生能源对软件质量和开发过程的冲突的影响。这项研究是重要的，因为预期的结果将有助于改善可再生能源的过程。应该对这项研究感兴趣的关键利益相关者包括：项目规划者、关注其系统和服务合规性的组织、需求分析师和技术开发人员。我们预计，从这项研究的以下成果：一个模型，估计所需的努力，以确保项目的要求符合法规;工具支持主动自我检查，对法规，业务运营的合规性;地图描绘强和弱的集中领域的经验教训，在该领域的需求工程;为需求工程师提供基层技术支持，以获取、分享和重复使用经验教训;了解冲突及其对需求、系统架构、项目风险、开发成本等的影响。追求的研究目标是新颖的，因此预期的结果将增加科学和工程知识体系。此外，加拿大各组织将能够通过以下方式改进其可再生能源进程：改进对合规工作的努力估计;系统地检查制度合规情况;更多和系统地重新利用从基层经验中吸取的教训;以及更好地了解可再生能源中的冲突。