C-FaRM: A collaborative and context aware framework for requirements management

Abstract

Requirements management for globally managed large scale projects is a complex task, primarily due to the involvement of several stakeholders, multiple technologies, enormous information, and frequently changing business needs. Managing requirements communicated through mediums such as emails, chat messages, etc. is difficult due the lack of explicit context and the extensive use of unstructured information. This paper describes a requirements management framework, C-FaRM, which helps in managing requirements knowledge from multiple types of requirements artifacts. The framework makes use of custom ontology based recommender system that helps in prioritization, visualization, and negotiation of requirements.