期刊名称：International Journal of Software Engineering & Applications (IJSEA)
印刷版ISSN：0976-2221
电子版ISSN：0975-9018
出版年度：2018
卷号：9
期号：2
出版社：Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center (AIRCC)
摘要：Communicating an organisation's requirements in a semantically consistent and understandable mannerand then reflecting the potential impact of those requirements on the IT infrastructure presents a majorchallenge among stakeholders. Initial research findings indicate a desire among business executives for atool that allows them to communicate organisational changes using natural language and a model of the ITinfrastructure that supports those changes. Building on a detailed analysis and evaluation of these findings,the innovative CRESUS-T support tool was designed and implemented. The purpose of this research was toinvestigate to what extent CRESUS-T both aids communication in the development of a sharedunderstanding and supports collaborative requirements elicitation to bring about organisational, andassociated IT infrastructural, change. In order to determine the extent shared understanding was fostered,the support tool was evaluated in a case study of a business process for the roll out of the IT softwareimage at a third level educational institution. Statistical analysis showed that the CRESUS-T support toolfostered shared understanding in the case study, through increased communication. Shared understandingis also manifested in the creation of two knowledge representation artefacts namely, a requirements modeland the IT infrastructure model. The CRESUS-T support tool will be useful to requirements engineers andbusiness analysts that have to gather requirements asynchronously.
关键词：Collaborative Requirements Elicitation; Shared Understanding; and Semantically enabled Web Services;Ontology.
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