Knowledge management model for support of requirement engineering

Abstract

Requirement engineering (RE) plays an important role in the success or failure of product and is recognized as the most critical factor in the entire software development process. Due to the fact that RE knowledge is highly dependent on human which may result in inconsistencies, terminology conflicts and lack of understanding of requirement knowledge faced in the implementation of information based applications. To address these issues we have proposed the knowledge management model for the support of RE activities. This knowledge model assists the requirement engineers and other stakeholders to share and understand the domain and instance level knowledge which results in strengthening the RE activities through continuous requirement refinement by better knowledge management model.