Agile Requirements Engineering Practices: An Empirical Study

Author

Cao, Lan ; Ramesh, Balasubramaniam

Author_Institution

Old Dominion Univ., Norfolk

Volume

25

Issue

1

fYear

2008

Firstpage

60

Lastpage

67

Abstract

An analysis of data from 16 software development organizations reveals seven agile RE practices, along with their benefits and challenges. The rapidly changing business environment in which most organizations operate is challenging traditional requirements-engineering (RE) approaches. Software development organizations often must deal with requirements that tend to evolve quickly and become obsolete even before project completion. Rapid changes in competitive threats, stakeholder preferences, development technology, and time-to-market pressures make prespecified requirements inappropriate.

Keywords

formal specification; software prototyping; systems analysis; agile iterative requirements engineering approach; business environment; empirical study; requirement specification; software development organization; time-to-market pressure; Data analysis; Design engineering; Feedback; Programming; Project management; Protection; Quality management; Software development management; Software quality; Urban areas; agile software development; requirements engineering;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Software, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0740-7459

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MS.2008.1

Filename

4420071