Issues in IT Service-Oriented Requirements Engineering

Lichtenstein, Sharman; Nguyen, Lemai; Hunter, Alexia

doi:10.3127/ajis.v13i1.70

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“…In today's context of cloud systems [5], traditional requirements elicitation techniques are heavily challenged [6]. For instance, the communication with consumers becomes too expensive or even impossible because the key consumers are no longer known in person, being both too numerous and too heterogeneous.…”

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Quest for Requirements: Scrutinizing Advanced Search Queries for Cloud Services with Fuzzy Galois Lattices

Todoran

Glinz

2014

2014 IEEE World Congress on Services

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In software and requirements engineering, requirements elicitation is considered an essential step towards building successful systems. Despite extensive existing research in the field of distributed requirements engineering, the topic of requirements elicitation for cloud systems remains still uncovered. Cloud challenges (e.g., heterogeneous and globally distributed users, volatile requirements, frequent change requests) cannot always be satisfied by existing methods. We present a new approach for eliciting requirements for cloud services by analyzing advanced search queries. Our approach builds fuzzy Galois lattices for the terms that compose advanced search queries, thus enabling a thorough analysis of stored search data. This can support cloud providers in observing requirements clusters and new classes of cloud services, identifying the threshold for achieving satisfied consumers with a minimal set of requirements implemented, and thus designing novel solutions, based on market trends. Moreover, the Galois lattices approach enables large-scale consumers' involvement and ensures the elicitation of real requirements unobtrusively. Abstract-In software and requirements engineering, requirements elicitation is considered an essential step towards building successful systems. Despite extensive existing research in the field of distributed requirements engineering, the topic of requirements elicitation for cloud systems remains still uncovered. Cloud challenges (e.g., heterogeneous and globally distributed users, volatile requirements, frequent change requests) cannot always be satisfied by existing methods. We present a new approach for eliciting requirements for cloud services by analyzing advanced search queries. Our approach builds fuzzy Galois lattices for the terms that compose advanced search queries, thus enabling a thorough analysis of stored search data. This can support cloud providers in observing requirements clusters and new classes of cloud services, identifying the threshold for achieving satisfied consumers with a minimal set of requirements implemented, and thus designing novel solutions, based on market trends. Moreover, the Galois lattices approach enables large-scale consumers' involvement and ensures the elicitation of real requirements unobtrusively.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Quest for Requirements: Scrutinizing Advanced Search Queries for Cloud Services with Fuzzy Galois Lattices

Todoran

Glinz

2014

2014 IEEE World Congress on Services

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“…When services are brought from hybrid environments, there may be semantic gaps which should be taken care of in RE and design part as well [48]. Before mapping web service towards design, customer acceptance is highly preferable.…”

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A Review of Requirement Engineering Issues and Challenges in Various Software Development Methods

Shah¹,

Patel²

2014

IJCA

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The Requirement Engineering (RE) is a systemic and integrated process of eliciting, elaborating, negotiating, prioritizing, specifying, validating and managing the requirements of a system. The detailed and agreed requirements are documented and specified to serve as the basis for further system development activities. The software industry has moved from traditional software development method to service oriented software development. While many researchers and practitioners have observed issues and challenges in Requirement Engineering phase specific to a software method, very little attention has been given to investigate diversity of issues and challenges of RE in different software development methods under one umbrella. This paper tries to review significant issues and challenges of RE from traditional software development method to recent service oriented software development method. The study unveils that there is a wide scope for developing new approaches and techniques in requirement engineering to resolve problems observed in various SE methods. The review discussion reveals the need of standardization and automation of RE process especially for Service oriented software development.

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“…The method used by Lichtenstein et al consists in retrieving requirements from SLAs [17]. This is viewed from consumers' perspective, who can consult SLAs and decide whether the specified services meet their needs or not.…”

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StakeCloud: Stakeholder requirements communication and resource identification in the cloud

Todoran

2012

2012 20th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE)

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With the recent emergence of cloud computing, the number of cloud service providers is constantly increasing and consumers' needs are becoming more sophisticated. This situation leads to an evident need for methods which enable providers to correctly elicit requirements coming from very heterogeneous consumers. Moreover, consumers demand ways to find the cloud services which best meet their needs. We propose to address the issues identified by creating the StakeCloud community platform, capable of working as a cloud resources marketplace. It will allow users to input their resource needs and provide them with matching cloud services. Additionally, in case these are not met, they can be communicated as new requirements to cloud providers. Such a contribution will improve the requirements communication and resource identification in cloud systems, bridging the gap between consumers and providers. Abstract-With the recent emergence of cloud computing, the number of cloud service providers is constantly increasing and consumers' needs are becoming more sophisticated. This situation leads to an evident need for methods which enable providers to correctly elicit requirements coming from very heterogeneous consumers. Moreover, consumers demand ways to find the cloud services which best meet their needs.We propose to address the issues identified by creating the StakeCloud community platform, capable of working as a cloud resources marketplace. It will allow users to input their resource needs and provide them with matching cloud services. Additionally, in case these are not met, they can be communicated as new requirements to cloud providers. Such a contribution will improve the requirements communication and resource identification in cloud systems, bridging the gap between consumers and providers.

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Issues in IT Service-Oriented Requirements Engineering

Cited by 23 publications

References 21 publications

Quest for Requirements: Scrutinizing Advanced Search Queries for Cloud Services with Fuzzy Galois Lattices

Quest for Requirements: Scrutinizing Advanced Search Queries for Cloud Services with Fuzzy Galois Lattices

A Review of Requirement Engineering Issues and Challenges in Various Software Development Methods

StakeCloud: Stakeholder requirements communication and resource identification in the cloud

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