AUT - Requirements Engineering
- ArionWhere applying and enrolled students can access AUT course information, check your enrolment status, make fee payments, update your personal details and view your academic results.
- AUTOnlineOnline access to course resources and learning activities through AUT's central learning management system.
- UnicentralUniCentral is the AUT University Student Portal. Here you will find useful information about you as a student and quicklinks to all the important online systems you will need to use while studying at AUT University.
Requirements Engineering
We offer opportunities for RE research projects related to understanding practitioners’ problems, improving processes and their adoption, and providing tool support. The research may relate to RE activities such as requirements elicitation, modelling, analysis, tracing, prioritisation, verification and validation, reuse, and change management. RE is a multi-faceted area and there are possible intersections with research in broad domains such as cognitive science, organisational theory, social theory and communications. This group is particularly interested in a cognitive view of RE and cognitive support of RE activities.
Investigation of the implications of a number of emerging themes related to RE practice is of particular interest to the research group:
·
·
·
·
Example Projects
Sharing Domain Knowledge
In his Masters thesis, Christian Ekadharmawan investigated aspects of sharing domain understanding between clients and software developers, as a critical aspect of requirements discovery. He undertook an empirical study in ten SMEs in the software development domain and investigated questions such as: what are the main barriers to sharing domain understanding? What are the main techniques, practices and tools used in practice? Is sharing domain understanding seen as important by practitioners?
Related publication:
Buchan, J., Ekadharmawan, C.H., & MacDonell, S.G. (2009) Insights into domain knowledge sharing in software development practice in SMEs, in Proceedings of the 16th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC2009). Penang, Malaysia, IEEE CS Press, pp.93-100.
Requirements Prioritisation Techniques for Large Requirements Sets
In this research project Qiao Ma, an MCIS student, investigated what evidence there is for the efficacy of current techniques for prioritising large sets of requirements. Using current literature of empirical studies as her data, she employed a Systematic Literature Review research methodology to identify possible gaps in research and practice.
Projects Available
Ontology-based support of RE
Understanding practitioners’ use of RE artefacts such as Software Requirements Specification documents
Investigating vendor-led requirements
Domain driven requirements tool development
Sharing domain and project knowledge
Investigating a client perspective of requirements management
Theme Papers
MacDonell, S.G., Min, K., & Connor, A.M. (2005) Autonomous requirements specification processing using natural language processing, in Proceedings of the ISCA 14th International Conference on Intelligent and Adaptive Systems and Software Engineering (IASSE-05). Toronto, Canada, ISCA, pp.266-270.