A Visualization Technique for Agent Based Goal Refinement to Elicit Soft Goals in Goal Oriented Requirements Engineering

Goal oriented requirements engineering methods have gained significance because these methods define the requirements in terms of goals, thus making it useful for all stakeholders to understand the requirements clearly. But extracting goals from the stakeholders is a challenging task in the goal oriented methods, especially the soft goals about which even the stakeholders have very little knowledge. To address this challenge we propose a methodology involving maximum participation of stakeholders where the soft goals are elicited in group sessions iteratively. The elicited goals are compiled through a software program called Activity Card Compiler. The methodology is used for Soft Goal Elicitation for the development of a Web Based Application. We present the results of our implementation and an analysis of the results.