The aim of this cooperative research project is to support the collaboration of all stakeholders in software development processes in particular with respect to software requirements.
Solution Architecture
The target solution architecture is shown by this picture:
Roles within the Consortium
The SoftWiki project consortium consists of university partners (Leipzig, Duisburg and Essen), integrated end-user industry partners (T-Systems and Lecos) and industry specialists in requirements engineering and text analysis (QA Systems, Pro DV and ISA). The different roles of these partners is shown by the next picture:
Social Requirements Engineering
We realize Social Requirements Engineering as an special scenario of agile and distributed Knowledge Engineering. To support these special type of Knowledge Engineering, we develop a tool which is based on paradigm of the Semantic Web and Web 2.0. These are:
- a knowledge base used as an information map, with different views on instance data
- intuitive wiki-like authoring of semantic content
- social collaboration
- keep track of changes
- allowing to comment and discuss every single part of a requirements engineering knowledge base)
- enable users to rate and measure the popularity of content
- honoring the activity of users
- semantic enhanced search strategies
All these techniques are applied with the ultimate goal of decreasing the entrance barrier for projects and requirements engineering experts to collaborate using semantic technologies. In the spirit of the Web 2.0 we implement an ”architecture of participation” that allows users to add value to the application as they use it.
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