Challenges in Requirements Engineering

Abstract

This paper presents a exposition of requirements engineering concepts and challenges, targeted on the research division of a large software company. It is argued that doing requirements is a difficult task and its critical problems are identified. The activities involved in requirements engineering are described and the aspects of an iterative process are presented. The state of the art of the research in two requirements activities: requirements elicitatiom and negotiation are described. The paper ends with a detailed proposal for an investigation of groupware support to distance requirements negotiation.