CAREER: Towards Estimating Requirements Coverage: Managing Scenarios and Goals in Requirements Evolution

North Carolina State University, Raleigh NC

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Abstract

Proposal Number: CCR-9983926 TITLE: CAREER: Towards Estimating Requirements Coverage: Managing Scenarios and Goals During Requirements Evolution PI: Ana (Annie) I. Anton The career development planned outlined in this proposal focuses on the principal investigator's efforts to integrate core research and educational objectives. The research addresses important issues in the discovery, elaboration and management of system use scenarios for the specification of software requirements. The ultimate goal is to develop viable solutions for supporting the early stages of the software lifecycle by ensuring requirements coverage. The objective is to produce a framework, and web-based tool support, to enable the evaluation of requirements activities and processes during scenario management and evolution as well as requirements coverage estimation. The web-based tool will serve as an experimental research engine, collecting data on requirements engineering activities in a series of projects for real clients in various domains, sites and project teams. The educational component is closely related to the research plan. Students, at the undergraduate and graduate level, as well as industrial participants, will use the software produced during the research activities. The results of this research are expected to improve the outcome of projects that employ goal and scenario-based approaches during requirements specification. A library of projects in various domains will lead to new materials such as techniques, methods and cases for software engineering education.