by Norbert Seyff, Neil A. M. Maiden, Inger Kristine Karlsen, James Lockerbie, Paul Grünbacher, Florian Graf, Cornelius Ncube
Abstract:
This paper investigates the effectiveness of different uses of scenarios on requirements discovery using results from requirements processes in two projects. The first specified requirements on a new aircraft management system at a regional UK airport to reduce its environmental impact. The second specified new work-based learning tools to be adopted by a consortium of organizations. In both projects scenarios were walked through both in facilitated workshops and in the stakeholders workplaces using different forms of a scenario tool. In the second project, scenarios were also walked through with a software prototype and creativity prompts. Results revealed both qualitative and quantitative differences in discovered requirements that have potential implications for models of scenario-based requirements discovery and the design of scenario tools.
Reference:
Exploring how to use scenarios to discover requirements (Norbert Seyff, Neil A. M. Maiden, Inger Kristine Karlsen, James Lockerbie, Paul Grünbacher, Florian Graf, Cornelius Ncube), In Requirements Engineering, volume 14, 2009.
Bibtex Entry:
@ARTICLE{Seyff2009,
author = {Norbert Seyff and Neil A. M. Maiden and Inger Kristine Karlsen and
James Lockerbie and Paul Grünbacher and Florian Graf and Cornelius
Ncube},
title = {Exploring how to use scenarios to discover requirements},
journal = {Requirements Engineering},
year = {2009},
volume = {14},
pages = {91-111},
number = {2},
abstract = {This paper investigates the effectiveness of different uses of scenarios
on requirements discovery using results from requirements processes
in two projects. The first specified requirements on a new aircraft
management system at a regional UK airport to reduce its environmental
impact. The second specified new work-based learning tools to be
adopted by a consortium of organizations. In both projects scenarios
were walked through both in facilitated workshops and in the stakeholders
workplaces using different forms of a scenario tool. In the second
project, scenarios were also walked through with a software prototype
and creativity prompts. Results revealed both qualitative and quantitative
differences in discovered requirements that have potential implications
for models of scenario-based requirements discovery and the design
of scenario tools.},
doi = {10.1007/s00766-009-0077-9}
}