Shamal Faily
Requirements sensemaking using concept maps.
Faily, Shamal; Lyle, John; Paul, Andre; Atzeni, Andrea; Blomme, Dieter; Desruelle, Heiko; Bangalore, Krishna
Authors
John Lyle
Andre Paul
Andrea Atzeni
Dieter Blomme
Heiko Desruelle
Krishna Bangalore
Contributors
Marco Winckler
Editor
Peter Forbrig
Editor
Regina Bernhaupt
Editor
Abstract
Requirements play an important role in software engineering, but their perceived usefulness means that they often fail to be properly maintained. Traceability is often considered a means for motivating and maintaining requirements, but this is difficult without a better understanding of the requirements themselves. Sensemaking techniques help us get this understanding, but the representations necessary to support it are difficult to create, and scale poorly when dealing with medium to large scale problems. This paper describes how, with the aid of supporting software tools, concept mapping can be used to both make sense of and improve the quality of a requirements specification. We illustrate this approach by using it to update the requirements specification for the EU webinos project, and discuss several findings arising from our results.
Citation
FAILY, S., LYLE, J., PAUL, A., ATZENI, A., BLOMME, D., DESRUELLE, H. and BANGALORE, K. 2012. Requirements sensemaking using concept maps. In Winckler, M., Forbrig, P. and Bernhaupt, R. (eds.) Human-centered software engineering: proceedings of the 4th International conference on human-centered software engineering (HCSE 2012), 29-31 October 2012, Toulouse, France. Lecture notes in computer science, 7623. Heidelberg: Springer [online], pages 217-232. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34347-6_13
Presentation Conference Type | Conference Paper (published) |
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Conference Name | 4th International conference on human-centered software engineering (HCSE 2012) |
Start Date | Oct 29, 2012 |
End Date | Oct 31, 2012 |
Acceptance Date | Oct 29, 2012 |
Online Publication Date | Dec 31, 2012 |
Publication Date | Dec 31, 2012 |
Deposit Date | Dec 10, 2021 |
Publicly Available Date | Dec 10, 2021 |
Publisher | Springer |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Pages | 217-232 |
Series Title | Lecture notes in computer science |
Series Number | 7623 |
Series ISSN | 0302-9743 ; 1611-3349 |
ISBN | 9783642343469 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34347-6_13 |
Keywords | Requirements engineering; User-centred design; Concept mapping; Domain mapping; Software engineering |
Public URL | https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1446709 |
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