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Guidance for requirements engineering processes

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Guidance plays a crucial role in requirements engineering as this task is both ill defined and highly intellectual. Guidance can be provided once the goal to be achieved has been identified. Two kinds of guidance are proposed, point and flow guidance. The former supports the fulfillment of goals whereas the latter helps in goal identification. Guidance is driven by guidelines which we have modelled as processes instantiated from a process meta-model just as any other, normal process is. Finally, guidelines are modular. This makes possible the rapid modification of guidelines. The paper presents the two types of guidance, the corresponding guidelines and the tool environment which supports the enactment of guidelines.

NATURE stands for Novel Approaches to Theories Underlying Requirements Engineering (ESPRIT Basic Project N° 6353).

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  1. Université Paris-1 Sorbonne, CRI, 17, rue de Tolbiac, 75013, Paris, France

    Samira Si-Said & Colette Rolland

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Si-Said, S., Rolland, C. (1997). Guidance for requirements engineering processes. In: Hameurlain, A., Tjoa, A.M. (eds) Database and Expert Systems Applications. DEXA 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1308. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0022072

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