Requirements Engineering for a Web-based Research, Technology & Innovation Monitoring Tool

TL;DR

This paper presents a requirements engineering process and a multi-tier architecture for developing a web-based RTI monitoring tool, exemplified by the Austrian RTI Monitor, to improve data collection and analysis in research and innovation sectors.

Contribution

It introduces a structured requirements engineering approach and a detailed software architecture for an open-access RTI monitoring system, addressing limitations of existing tools.

Findings

Defined stakeholder requirements for RTI monitoring

Developed a multi-tier software architecture

Implemented a user-facing dashboard module

Abstract

With the increasing significance of Research, Technology, and Innovation (RTI) policies in recent years, the demand for detailed information about the performance of these sectors has surged. Many of the current tools are limited in their application purpose. To address these issues, we introduce a requirements engineering process to identify stakeholders and elicitate requirements to derive a system architecture, for a web-based interactive and open-access RTI system monitoring tool. Based on several core modules, we introduce a multi-tier software architecture of how such a tool is generally implemented from the perspective of software engineers. A cornerstone of this architecture is the user-facing dashboard module. We describe in detail the requirements for this module and additionally illustrate these requirements with the real example of the Austrian RTI Monitor.