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Inventing Requirements: Experiences with an Airport Operations System

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Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ 2008)

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This paper reports a workshop that integrated creativity techniques with extended use case diagrams and storyboard representations of use cases to discover stakeholder requirements for VANTAGE, a new system designed to reduce environmental impact at airports. The workshop revised the boundaries of the system and generated 200 new requirements-based ideas and storyboards for VANTAGE. The paper describes the workshop structure, gives examples of outputs from it, and uses these outputs to answer 3 research questions about the usefulness of ideas generated and creativity techniques employed.

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Maiden, N., Ncube, C., Lockerbie, J. (2008). Inventing Requirements: Experiences with an Airport Operations System. In: Paech, B., Rolland, C. (eds) Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality. REFSQ 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5025. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69062-7_6

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