Supporting systems development by capturing deliberations during requirements engineering

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Authors
Ramesh, Balasubramaniam
Dhar, Vasant
Subjects
Software maintenance
Software design
Personnel
Project management
Software development management
History
Problem-solving
Management information systems
Design engineering
Knowledge engineering
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Date of Issue
1992-06
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IEEE
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Abstract
Support for various stakeholders involved in software projects (designers, maintenance personnel, project managers and executives, end users) can be provided by capturing the history about design decisions in the early stages of the system's development life cycle in a structured manner. Much of this knowledge, which is called the process knowledge, involving the deliberation on alternative requirements and design decisions, is lost in the course of designing and changing such systems. Using an empirical study of problem-solving behavior of individual and groups of information systems professionals, a conceptual model called REMAP (representation and maintenance of process knowledge) that relates process knowledge to the objects that are created during the requirements engineering process has been developed. A prototype environment that provides assistance to the various stakeholders involved in the design and management of large systems has been implemented.
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Article
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Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
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This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation through Grant 8713684
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This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation through Grant 8713684
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13 p.
Citation
Ramesh, Balasubramaniam, and Vasant Dhar. "Supporting systems development by capturing deliberations during requirements engineering." IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 18.6 (1992): 498-510.
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.
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