Thesis Title: A Feature-Driven Methodology for Situational Method Engineering (SME)
Abstract:
Software engineers have long realized that they cannot use existing methodologies for all project situations, as every software development project has its own specific characteristics. Therefore, a branch of software engineering–known as Situational Method Engineering (SME)–has emerged which helps develop bespoke methodologies to fit the specific characteristics of each and every project situation. As in software development, SME too involves rigorous Requirements Engineering (RE), so much so that if requirements elicitation and definition is botched in any way, methodology development will most likely fail as a result. In software engineering, requirements engineering has long been the focus of research and practice, resulting in a myriad of practical methods and patterns. In contrast, the RE methods that are currently practiced in SME are still in their infancy, and the majority of the requirements extracted in SME endeavours are non-functional in nature; elicitation of functional requirements is still being neglected, and quality suffers as a consequence.
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