Paper Info
Title
Cognitive Influences In Prioritizing Software Requirements
Abstract
In software development, the elicitation process and particularly the acquisition of software requirements are critical success factors. Elicitation is about learning the needs of users, and communicating those needs to system builders. Prioritizing requirements includes negotiation as an important issue, which becomes extremely difficult, as clients often do not know exactly what they need. To overcome this situation, aiming at improving stakeholder's negotiation, we propose reducing the gap of misunderstanding between them by the use of cognitive science. Particularly, we suggest using cognitive styles to characterize people from the way their process information. In this paper, we introduce a case study showing that cognitive profiles may affect requirement understanding and prioritization. Our controlled experiment shows that considering cognitive profiles when performing elicitation might increase stakeholders' satisfaction and prioritization accuracy.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2010
ICSOFT 2010: PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOFTWARE AND DATA TECHNOLOGIES, VOL 2
Requirements Engineering, Cognitive Informatics, Requirements Elicitation, Requirements Prioritization
Field
DocType
Citations 
Systems engineering,Computer science,Requirements analysis,Requirements engineering,Requirements management,Requirement prioritization,Software requirements specification,Non-functional testing,Social software engineering,Process management,Software requirements
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nadina Martinez Carod141.82
Alejandra Cechich237039.34