A Systematic Mapping of Software Requirements Negotiation Techniques

Lucas Tito, Alexandre Estebanez, Andréa Magalhães, Daniel de Oliveira, Marcos Kalinowski

2017

Abstract

[Context] Eliciting requirements is a commonly discussed task. However, after they are ready, it is essentially important for a software project that these requirements are sufficient for stakeholders to reach their goals. Therefore, techniques to negotiate schedule, price, quality, and scope among stakeholders are important. [Goal] This paper aims at identifying and presenting characteristics of techniques that have been proposed and/or used to negotiate software requirements. [Method] A mapping study was planned and conducted to identify techniques and to capture their characteristics. Those characteristics include description, environment (e.g. academic, industrial), the types of research being published, and the types of primary studies. The main findings of the papers, and the advantages and disadvantages reported for theses techniques were also summarized. [Results] We mapped the characteristics of 10 different requirements negotiation techniques identified in 33 papers which met our inclusion criteria. We found that most of the identified techniques can be seen as variations of the seminal WinWin requirements negotiation technique proposed in 1994. [Conclusions] The conducted mapping study provides an interesting overview of the area and may also be useful to ground future research on this topic.

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Tito L., Estebanez A., Magalhães A., de Oliveira D. and Kalinowski M. (2017). A Systematic Mapping of Software Requirements Negotiation Techniques . In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-758-248-6, pages 518-525. DOI: 10.5220/0006362605180525


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@conference{iceis17,
author={Lucas Tito and Alexandre Estebanez and Andréa Magalhães and Daniel de Oliveira and Marcos Kalinowski},
title={A Systematic Mapping of Software Requirements Negotiation Techniques},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,},
year={2017},
pages={518-525},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006362605180525},
isbn={978-989-758-248-6},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,
TI - A Systematic Mapping of Software Requirements Negotiation Techniques
SN - 978-989-758-248-6
AU - Tito L.
AU - Estebanez A.
AU - Magalhães A.
AU - de Oliveira D.
AU - Kalinowski M.
PY - 2017
SP - 518
EP - 525
DO - 10.5220/0006362605180525