A lightweight forum-based distributed requirement elicitation process for open source community

作者：Lai Han; Peng Rong^*; Sun Dong; Liu Jia

来源：International Journal of Advancements in Computing Technology, 2012, 4(7): 138-145.

DOI：10.4156/ijact.vol4.issue7.15

• Collection process
• Forum
• Incentive mechanism
• Meta model
• Open source communities
• Requirement elicitation
• Requirements elicitation
• Requirements management
• Template-based

Nowadays, lots of open source communities adopt forum to acquire scattered stakeholders' requirements. But the requirements collection process always suffers from the unformatted description and unfocused discussions. In this paper, we establish a framework ReqForum to define the metamodel of the requirement elicitation forum. Based on it, we propose a lightweight forum-based requirements elicitation process which includes six steps: template-based requirements creation, opinions collection, requirements collection, requirements management, capability identification and the incentive mechanism. According to the proposed process, the prototype SKLSEForum is established by composing the Discuz and its existed pulg-ins. The implementation indicates that the process is feasible and the cost is economic.

• 出版日期2012