Context-Driven Elicitation of Default Requirements: an Empirical Validation

TL;DR

This paper presents a framework for eliciting default requirements in requirements engineering, emphasizing the identification of stakeholders' implicit assumptions, validated through empirical study and providing practical guidelines.

Contribution

It introduces a novel conceptual framework for default requirements elicitation, including a practical checklist and empirical validation to improve stakeholder requirement analysis.

Findings

Framework effectively identifies implicit assumptions

Empirical validation supports framework's practical applicability

Guidelines enhance elicitation process accuracy

Abstract

In Requirements Engineering, requirements elicitation aims the acquisition of information from the stakeholders of a system-to-be. An important task during elicitation is to identify and render explicit the stakeholders' implicit assumptions about the system-to-be and its environment. Purpose of doing so is to identify omissions in, and conflicts between requirements. This paper offers a conceptual framework for the identification and documentation of default requirements that stakeholders may be using. The framework is relevant for practice, as it forms a check-list for types of questions to use during elicitation. An empirical validation is described, and guidelines for elicitation are drawn.