An integrated tool to support early-phase requirements analysis

Abstract

In recent years, requirements engineering has been generally considered to be fundamental in software engineering. It defines requirements such as goals, stakeholders, and behaviors of the required system and is the main foundation of software development. Our research proposed an integrated framework for requirements analysis which consists of four existing methods (i− framework, KAOS, Message Sequence Chart, and Problem Frames) and developed a tool to provide assistance to the user in using the framework for requirements analysis. Furthermore, we evaluated its support tool regarding its usability to provide assistance to the user in using the framework to analyze requirements. This paper will present the results that answer our early hypothesis in which the proposed framework and its support tool were expected to be able to enhance existing methods in requirements analysis. Additionally, it can also be seen that the integrated framework holds the potential to be a suitable tool for introducing requirements engineering for students especially those in higher education.