MEASURING REQUIREMENT EVOLUTION - A Case Study in the E-commerce Domain

Päivi Ovaska

2004

Abstract

Although requirement evolution is a widely recognized phenomenon, there are only a few approaches for measuring it. These existing approaches are based on the assumption that all the requirements exist and can be seen in the requirement elicitation and analysis phases. They do not include provisions for the emergence during systems development of new requirements, which cannot be anticipated in the requirement elicitation and analysis phase. This paper shows how the concept of requirements creep is adopted for the measurement of emergent requirement evolution. We use a case study in the E-commerce domain to illustrate the use of this measure in the prediction of systems development. The findings of this study suggest that requirement evolution can be measured in a practical software project, and the findings demonstrate the strong influence of requirements creep on the systems development effort. The findings of our study encourage us to undertake further studies involving other organizations and projects.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Ovaska P. (2004). MEASURING REQUIREMENT EVOLUTION - A Case Study in the E-commerce Domain . In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS, ISBN 972-8865-00-7, pages 669-673. DOI: 10.5220/0002628806690673

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis04,
author={Päivi Ovaska},
title={MEASURING REQUIREMENT EVOLUTION - A Case Study in the E-commerce Domain},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,},
year={2004},
pages={669-673},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002628806690673},
isbn={972-8865-00-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,
TI - MEASURING REQUIREMENT EVOLUTION - A Case Study in the E-commerce Domain
SN - 972-8865-00-7
AU - Ovaska P.
PY - 2004
SP - 669
EP - 673
DO - 10.5220/0002628806690673