Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Requirements Elicitation
1.Interviews.
2.Scenarios.
3.Observations and social analysis.
4.Soft systems methods.
5.Requirements reuse.
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Problem
• Questionnaire
• Consider it as pre-work to a personal interview
• secondary scenarios
• Alternative/exceptional course of events, variations of primary
scenario
• An alternative scenario meets the intent of the use case but with a
different sequence of steps
• An exceptional scenario addresses the conditions of main case and
alternative cases that differ from the norm and cases already
covered
• Example with consensus(general agreement) as a goal
• Primary scenario: vote in a session
• Alternative scenario: voting in several sessions
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• Exceptional scenario: what to do with a non-registrant who wishes to vote
Representation of Scenarios
Text (informal, formal), diagrams (state, sequence ...),
video, animation, comics , storyboard….
• Different representations may be useful in specific situations
• Do not use for detailed requirements elicitation. Rather, they are ways
of understanding a problem and its organizational context.
• Model/real-world comparison.
• Change identification.