REfine: A gamified platform for participatory requirements engineering

Remco Snijders, Fabiano Dalpiaz, Sjaak Brinkkemper, Mahmood Hosseini, Raian Ali, Atilla Özüm

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Abstract

The active involvement of stakeholders in Requirements Engineering (RE) is crucial, for the system under design should fulfill their expectations. In software products, which evolve under the control of Software Product Organizations (SPOs), stakeholders' involvement is limited to SPO representatives and key clients. Thus, key stakeholders are excluded, including current and prospective users. Two emerging trends can help to shift towards a more participatory RE: crowdsourcing eases the access to a large number of stakeholders, and gamification provides means to keep them motivated through feedback loops (that reward the useful participants). In this paper, we build on this potential and propose REfine, a gamified online platform for requirements elicitation and refinement by involving a crowd of stakeholders: users, developers, analysts, etc. We report encouraging results from a case study that show how REfine has led to useful requirements, stakeholders' engagement, and valuable interactions.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication1st International Workshop on Crowd-Based Requirements Engineering, CrowdRE 2015 - Proceedings
EditorsSebastian Adam, Andreas Metzger, Anna Perini, Norbert Seyff
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages1-6
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781509001132
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 28 Dec 2015
Externally publishedYes
Event1st International Workshop on Crowd-Based Requirements Engineering, CrowdRE 2015 - Ottawa, Canada
Duration: 25 Aug 2015 → …

Publication series

Name1st International Workshop on Crowd-Based Requirements Engineering, CrowdRE 2015 - Proceedings

Conference

Conference1st International Workshop on Crowd-Based Requirements Engineering, CrowdRE 2015
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityOttawa
Period25/08/15 → …

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