Towards systematic analysis of continuous user input
Published 5 September 2011
Dennis Pagano
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This position paper provides a first step towards a systematic analysis of continuous user input by identifying its main challenges and aligning helpful techniques from requirements engineering research to address the challenges in a common framework.
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Novel requirements elicitation approaches suggest to continuously gather and communicate user input to engineering teams. The resulting data usually consists of a large amount of unstructured information in the form of natural language and may include conflicting user needs that have to be detected and resolved to obtain consistent requirements. This position paper provides a first step towards a systematic analysis of continuous user input by identifying its main challenges and aligning helpful techniques from requirements engineering research to address the challenges in a common framework.
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