Arunkumar Khannur and Manjunatha Hiremath, Christ University, India

The proposed Requirements Engineering Framework (REF) is novel and efficacious in producing quality Requirements Specifications. The framework is based on the principles of design thinking that include empathy; system visualization to understand the system, its components, and the pattern of their interactions; and observing the possible behavior under different contexts and situations. The proposed framework includes requirement elicitation, requirement understanding, defining requirement goals, requirement profiling, requirement contextualization, and requirements modeling. All these are carried out by keeping ISO 25000 standards for software engineering at the core. The proposed REF will be impactful in implementing modern-day projects which are disruptive and becoming more and more context-aware systems because of machine/ deep learning, data engineering to deal with structured and unstructured data, sensor technologies, interactive technologies, 5G technologies, and control-related technologies. The framework also will address the limitations of CMM-based or agile-based approaches.

Requirements Modelling, System Visualization, Contextualization, Quality Profiling, Risk Profiling, Quality Engineering, ISO 25000.