Mobile Technologies in Requirements Engineering

  • Gunnar Kurtz
  • Michael Geisser
  • Tobias Hildenbrand
  • Thomas Kude
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Abstract

This paper presents the current capabilities of mobile technologies to support the requirements engineering phase of software development projects. After a short insight into the state of the art of requirements engineering, different areas of application of mobile requirements engineering processes and tools - such as Arena-M or the Mobile Scenario Presenter - are being presented. The paper concludes with a critical statement regarding the benefit of current mobile tools in real-life requirements engineering.

Keywords

Mobile Device Requirement Engineering Mobile Technology Software Project Requirement Engineer 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Gunnar Kurtz
    • 1
  • Michael Geisser
    • 1
  • Tobias Hildenbrand
    • 1
  • Thomas Kude
    • 1
  1. 1.Department of Information Systems IUniversity of Mannheim68131 MannheimGermany

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