DOMAR: AN APPROACH TO PREVENT PROBLEMS RELATED TO REQUIREMENTS DOCUMENTATION AND MANAGEMENT

Resumo

The suitable accomplishment of the Requirements Engineering (RE) process in the early
stages of software engineering project is one of the safest ways to achieve quality in the
development of the software product. However, despite the growing number of projects which use the RE process, experts realize that the process is not well structured and executed, leading to many problems, both in collecting and in the documentation and management of requirements. One approach to assist in structuring and implementing the RE process is to provide ways to prevent some of the problems. Based on this assumption, the present work presents DoMaR (Documentation and Management Requirements), an approach that maps the problems in requirements documentation and management, in order to propose a solution to prevent such detected problems. An environment, which has the same name of the approach, was developed to assist in requirements registration, organization, and monitoring.
A case study using the proposed environment as well as the results of applying the approach are presented.