The Goal- and Process-Oriented Approach in Requirements Engineering

Seminar paper from the year 2016 in the subject Computer Science - Software grade: 10 University of Cologne (Seminar für Wirtschaftsinformatik und integrierte Informationssysteme) course: Bachelorseminar Requirements Engineering language: English abstract: The goal of this work was to provide a holistic overview of current frameworks for requirements elicitation. They can be catogrized as goal- or process-oriented ones. For achieving this goal I conducted a structured literature review and summarized the results within in tables. Hence this work can serve as reference manual for quickly getting an overview of possbile requirements elicitation approaches. There exist a couple of approaches for the elicitation of requirements for software projects. Usually it is difficult to identify the most relevant ones in order to have a coherent software development process. In general it is distinguished between functional and non-functional requirements. Functional ones describe what a system has to do what a system has to perform. Non-functional ones put constraints on the software meaning they are quality attributes such as availability and security.