Gathering requirements from remote users

We describe a distributed requirements engineering environment using computer aided software engineering tools linked together through the Internet. We created this distributed requirements engineering environment using Microsoft´s Personal Web Server (PWS), Microsoft´s Open Database Connectivity (OPEC) technology, Netscape Communicator, Microsoft´s Internet Explorer, Microsoft´s Access97 database, and a set of PERL scripts that are executed by users of the environment to perform database operations. We show how we added basic security features to the Internet accessible database