Title :
The top risk of requirements engineering
Author :
Lawrence, Brian ; Wiegers, Karl ; Ebert, Christof
Author_Institution :
Coyote Valley Software, Silicon Valley, CA, USA
Abstract :
The worst thing that can happen in requirements engineering is that your set of requirements, however expressed, doesn´t accurately represent your users´ needs and consequently leads your team down the wrong development path. The whole point of requirements engineering is to steer your development toward producing the right software. If you don´t get the requirements right, how well you execute the rest of the project doesn´t matter because it will fail. The article looks at how we can be led astray
Keywords :
systems analysis; customer representation; functional requirements; requirements engineering; Computer crashes; Costs; Heart; Inspection; Reliability engineering; Robustness; Scalability; Security; Software quality; Technological innovation;
Journal_Title :
Software, IEEE