A Program of Research in Requirements Engineering

在开发软件密集型系统时，加拿大的组织越来越多地接受需求工程(RE)规程。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、吸取的经验教训和冲突。在遵守方面，这项提案力求调查：(A)为确保遵守条例的要求所需的努力，以及(B)对违反条例的制度的遵守情况进行自我检查。在经验教训方面，该提案寻求调查使需求分析人员能够：轻松获取、共享和重用从项目中学到的经验教训的技术。在冲突领域，本提案旨在调查源于软件工程的冲突对软件质量和开发过程的影响。这项研究很重要，因为预期结果将有助于改进稀土工艺。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、关注其系统和服务的遵从性的组织、需求分析师和技术开发人员。我们预计这项研究将产生以下结果：评估确保项目需求符合法规所需工作量的模型；支持针对法规进行主动自我检查的工具；描述需求工程领域经验教训集中强弱领域的地图；为需求工程师提供基层技术支持，以获取、分享和重用经验教训；关于冲突及其对需求、系统架构、项目风险、开发成本等的影响的知识。所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的主体。此外，加拿大各组织将能够通过以下方式改进其可持续发展进程：改进努力--合规工作的估计；系统地检查系统的合规性；增加和有系统地重复利用从基层经验中吸取的经验教训；以及提高对可持续发展根源冲突的了解。

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.