Desenvolvimento de um sistema colaborativo para apoio à engenharia de requisitos

Abstract

Collaboration is the action or effect of collaborating. It refers to the idea of working together to achieve shared goals. Collaborative Systems are systems designed to support group work and thus assist groups in communicating, collaborating and coordinating their activities. Requirements Engineering (RE) is an area of knowledge that encompasses four main processes: software elicitation, analysis, specification, and validation. This area is also responsible for managing requirements throughout the software product life cycle. The RE process focuses on understanding the problem. The Programa C extension program - Community, Computing, Culture, Communication, Science, Citizenship, Creativity, Collaboration adopts a problem solving methodology in its Resolve! activity, in which students from Computer Science and Software Engineering undergraduate programs are organized in teams. to solve problems of the local community. When involving the solution of a real problem, the team, in addition to having problems managing a large number of tools and artifacts involved in the development process, needs to undertake Requirements Engineering in collaboration with stakeholders to solve the problem, which involves eg interviews, prioritization of requirements and validation. This paper aims to propose a collaborative system to support the realization of Requirements Engineering with the participation of the interested parties, and thus support the interactions arising from the execution of problems in the context of problem solving. To achieve this goal, a systematic review of the literature is carried out, which allowed us to map the state of the art and make a detailed analysis of the works that contribute to this proposal. For the execution of the work, a methodology based on the Scrum framework was defined. Following this methodology, it was possible to define the requirements of the tool and work systematically in its construction. The result obtained was the Clover tool, which allows for the analysis and specification of software requirements. From an evaluation with users, it was possible to prove that the tool is suitable for its purpose, that is, it meets the main objective of the work, which is to support Requirements Engineering in a collaborative way.