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2013
Conference Paper
Titel
SERVUS - Collaborative tool support for agile requirements analysis
Abstract
Agility in software and service engineering usually needs to encom-pass the requirements analysis phase. This paper describes a multi-lingual Web-based tool that allows multiple users and stakeholders of different, possibly geo-graphically dispersed organizations to perform requirements analysis activities in an agile and collaborative manner, and in close cooperation with software archi-tects and engineers. The tool relies upon the identification and semi-formal de-scription of use cases, e.g. following Cockburn's approach, and the resource-ori-ented extensions proposed by the SERVUS Design Methodology. It supports to define relationships between use cases, their representation in UML, their step-wise refinement and mapping to existing or emerging capabilities of service plat-forms as well as the specification of associated test cases. The tool is illustrated by its use in the European research project ENVIROFI. This project aims at ana-lyzing and specifying the generi c and specific enablement of the Future Internet core platform for the environmental information space.