Problem domain categories in requirements engineering

✍ Scribed by N.A.M. MAIDEN; M. HARE

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 337 KB
• Volume: 49
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1071-5819
• DOI: 10.1006/ijhc.1998.0206

✦ Synopsis

Requirements engineering is the complex technical, social and cognitive process which produces requirements for a software-intensive system. However, little is understood about the problem domains for which these software-intensive systems are developed. Card sorting was used to determine mental categories of problem domains to inform design of a library of semi-formal, reusable object system models. Card sorting is a knowledge elicitation technique effective for eliciting mental categories from subjects who sort concepts such as objects or problems into categories. In NATURE, we anticipate better reuse if object system models in NATURE's database correspond to natural mental categories elicited using card sorting from experienced software engineers. Results led to some revision of the structure and contents of several models and how these models might be retrieved and used.