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Computer-aided requirements engineering

, and . ACM '80: Proceedings of the ACM 1980 annual conference, page 369--381. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (1980)
DOI: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/800176.809992

Abstract

Sometime in the future, Requirements Engineers (also known as Systems Analysts) will replace their present manual methods by a computer aided method (a Requirements Engineering System) just as programmers have replaced manual by on-line programming. The Requirements Engineering System will be part of the (logically) integrated Decision Support System of the Systems Department. This paper briefly describes the need for formal recorded requirements and analyzes the reasons why organizations do not record and maintain requirements. The future Requirement Engineering System is described and two issues concerned with its usability are discussed. The first is concerned with the language or representation method and the second with the facilities that will aid the analyst. The final section summarizes the current situation and outlines some reasons for believing that such a Requirements Engineering System is technically feasible and can be cost effective.

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