Abstract
Crowdsourcing is an emerging paradigm which
utilises the power of the crowd in contributing information
and solving problems. Crowdsourcing can support requirements
elicitation, especially for systems used by a wide range of users
and working in a dynamic context where requirements evolve
regularly. For such systems, traditional elicitation methods are
typically costly and limited in catering for the high diversity,
scale and volatility of requirements. In this paper, we advocate the
use of crowdsourcing for requirements elicitation and investigate
ways to configure crowdsourcing to improve the quality of elicited
requirements. To confirm and enhance our argument, we follow
an empirical approach starting with two focus groups involving
14 participants, users and developers, followed by an online
expert survey involving 34 participants from the Requirements
Engineering community. We discuss our findings and present a
set of challenges of applying crowdsourcing to aid requirements
engineering with a focus on the elicitation stage.
utilises the power of the crowd in contributing information
and solving problems. Crowdsourcing can support requirements
elicitation, especially for systems used by a wide range of users
and working in a dynamic context where requirements evolve
regularly. For such systems, traditional elicitation methods are
typically costly and limited in catering for the high diversity,
scale and volatility of requirements. In this paper, we advocate the
use of crowdsourcing for requirements elicitation and investigate
ways to configure crowdsourcing to improve the quality of elicited
requirements. To confirm and enhance our argument, we follow
an empirical approach starting with two focus groups involving
14 participants, users and developers, followed by an online
expert survey involving 34 participants from the Requirements
Engineering community. We discuss our findings and present a
set of challenges of applying crowdsourcing to aid requirements
engineering with a focus on the elicitation stage.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the IEEE Ninth 9th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2015) |
| Publisher | IEEE |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 978-1-4673-6630-4 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2015 |
Keywords
- Crowdsourcing
- Requirements Elicitation
- Crowdbased Elicitation