Configuring crowdsourcing for requirements elicitation

Authors: Hosseini, M., Shahri, A., Phalp, K., Taylor, J., Ali, R. and Dalpiaz, F.

Journal: Proceedings - International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science

Volume: 2015-June

Issue: June

Pages: 133-138

eISSN: 2151-1357

ISBN: 9781467366304

ISSN: 2151-1349

DOI: 10.1109/RCIS.2015.7128873

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.

http://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/21886/

Source: Scopus