EVALUATING THE REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING PROCESS USING MAJOR CONCERNS

摘要

The complexity and variety of software projects, the mul-tidisciplinary and uncertainty of requirements engineering (RE) demand adoption of good RE practices. The most noticeable work of RE process assessment and improvement is the CMM-like three level RE process maturity assessment model by Sommerville and Sawyer. This paper proposes a new RE process assessment method. The novelty of this research is threefold: firstly, it proposes a new concept "COncern of Requirement Engineering (CORE) to be used in RE process development and assessment. Secondly, it proposes a list of major COREs based on theoretical research and an industrial survey. Thirdly, a RE process assessment model has been proposed based on the concept of CORE and initial list of major COREs. A case study based on CORE is presented to show the applicability of the concept and the assessment model developed. This work is a part of the framework for RE process development in our current research.