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Requirement is the foundation for both software development and project management activities, so an effective requirements process which has a potential influence on the quality of the final software product must be committed by all stakeholders. However current process improvement maturity models pay little attention to requirements engineering process and they are “black-box test” for organizations’ competence. It is the precondition for our research to understand the fundamental issues and to identify the characteristic that requirement process possessed. We suggest a systematic view for requirement process improvement that includes measurement-based improvement for activities, methods, peoples as “white-box test”, emphasizing the people factor, such as communication and collaboration, etc. Our future work will involve structuring the platform or tools which integrate methods, technologies, checklists, templates, lessons-learned, and providing basic supporting for requirements process improvement and distributed requirements development and management.
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Ning, A., Hou, H., Hua, Q., Yu, B., Hao, K. (2006). Requirements Engineering Processes Improvement: A Systematic View. In: Li, M., Boehm, B., Osterweil, L.J. (eds) Unifying the Software Process Spectrum. SPW 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3840. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11608035_15
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