A Program of Research in Requirements Engineering

加拿大的组织在开发软件密集型系统时越来越多地采用需求工程（RE）原则。拟议的研究涉及可再生能源需要改进的几个关键领域，即：合规性、经验教训和冲突。在遵守方面，本建议力求调查：(a)确保要求符合条例所需的努力和(b)根据条例对系统的遵守情况进行自我检查。在经验教训方面，本提案寻求调查能够使需求分析人员能够：轻松地获取、共享和重用从项目中吸取的经验教训的技术。在冲突领域，本提案试图调查根植于可再生资源的冲突对软件质量和开发过程的影响。这项研究很重要，因为预期的结果将有助于改进RE过程。对这项研究感兴趣的关键利益相关者包括：项目规划者、关注其系统和服务遵从性的组织、需求分析师和技术开发人员。我们期望从这项研究中得到以下结果：一个用于评估确保项目需求符合法规所需的工作量的模型；工具支持主动自检、违章、合规性业务运营；描绘需求工程领域中吸取的经验教训集中的强弱区域的地图；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；了解冲突及其对需求、系统架构、项目风险、开发成本和其他方面的影响。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体系。此外，加拿大组织将能够通过以下方式改进其可再生能源流程：改进合规工作的工作量估计；系统的制度符合性检查方法；增加和系统地重新利用从基层经验中吸取的教训；提高对可再生能源冲突的认识。

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.