An Empirical Evaluation of Requirements Elicitation from Business Models through REMO Technique

Jônatas Medeiros de Mendonça, Pedro Garcêz de Moura, Weudes Evangelista, Hugo Martins, Rafael Reis, Edna Dias Canedo, Rodrigo Bonifácio, Carla Silva, Fernando Wanderley

2017

Abstract

The Requirements Elicitation oriented by business process MOdeling (REMO) technique presents a set of heuristics to support the elicitation of requirements based on business process models. Although empirically validated only in controlled environments, the literature does not report evidence regarding the applicability of the technique in real scenarios. In this context, this paper presents an empirical evaluation applied in an industrial settings, using a multimethod approach, where a quantitative analysis measured the applicability of the technique and a qualitative analysis the utility and ease of use according to requirements analysts. As for the results, the quantitative analysis made it clear that the REMO technique can bring real benefit in the context of the study, identifying a higher number of funcional requirements than the conventional approach (without the support of the REMO technique). This benefit is reached without overcomplicating the task of eliciting requirements.

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Medeiros de Mendonça J., Garcêz de Moura P., Evangelista W., Martins H., Reis R., Dias Canedo E., Bonifácio R., Silva C. and Wanderley F. (2017). An Empirical Evaluation of Requirements Elicitation from Business Models through REMO Technique . In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-758-248-6, pages 324-332. DOI: 10.5220/0006310803240332


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@conference{iceis17,
author={Jônatas Medeiros de Mendonça and Pedro Garcêz de Moura and Weudes Evangelista and Hugo Martins and Rafael Reis and Edna Dias Canedo and Rodrigo Bonifácio and Carla Silva and Fernando Wanderley},
title={An Empirical Evaluation of Requirements Elicitation from Business Models through REMO Technique},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,},
year={2017},
pages={324-332},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006310803240332},
isbn={978-989-758-248-6},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,
TI - An Empirical Evaluation of Requirements Elicitation from Business Models through REMO Technique
SN - 978-989-758-248-6
AU - Medeiros de Mendonça J.
AU - Garcêz de Moura P.
AU - Evangelista W.
AU - Martins H.
AU - Reis R.
AU - Dias Canedo E.
AU - Bonifácio R.
AU - Silva C.
AU - Wanderley F.
PY - 2017
SP - 324
EP - 332
DO - 10.5220/0006310803240332