A Collaborative Approach to Requirements Elicitation

Athena: A collaborative approach to requirements elicitation

“…The use of the Activity Theory makes it possible to identify and convert scenario descriptions into use case items. To support the conversion of scenarios into use cases, our method establishes a relationship between Activity Theory, which is implicit in Group Task Analysis [24], and the concepts proposed by Jacobson et al [17] for the construction of Use Case Diagrams and their descriptions [21].…”

“…Besides, in both cases the formalism based on use cases contrasts with the users' vocabulary and mental model. This paper is an extended version of a previous publication [21]. The novelties in the present paper may be summarized as follows:…”

“…Section 2 presents an overview of related work in requirements engineering. Section 3 justifies our approach, which is reviewed in Section 4 [21]. Section 5 shows the main contribution of this paper, detailing the conversion process between the steps of our approach.…”

“…In our previous work [21], we presented our model and method, but we did not provide any details of how the conversion between the steps in our method is accomplished. This paper contributes in providing detailed descriptions about the conversion steps (Section 5).…”

“…In a previous paper [21] we argue that collaboration is crucial during the requirements negotiation phase and needs to be explicitly induced and supported by the elicitation process. We believe that collaboration and negotiation should be triggered by conflicting situations and that conflicts arise when stakeholders make their viewpoints explicit.…”