e-PROTOTYPING: ITERATIVE ANALYSIS OF WEB USER REQUIREMENTS
Keywords:
Web Engineering, prototyping, evolutionary software development, participationAbstract
Projects developing Web applications face problems when it comes to identifying the Web users’ requirements. There are a number of reasons for this. It is unclear how to gather initial requirements from potential users if there is no design artifact to communicate about. Developers have difficulty identifying the needs of the Web application users during the ongoing development process because of a lack of proper communication concepts. Development teams for Web-based systems include professionals from different disciplines with diverse cultures. Members of the development team often belong to many different organizations with varying stakes in the project. This article presents a modified prototyping approach called e-Prototyping. This approach includes frequent releases of software versions (based on short development cycles) as well as integrated mechanisms for gathering feedback from users and other relevant actors via the live system. It underlines the need to offer various communication channels to the users and to systematically order the different streams of feedback to enable the developers to identify the user requirements. e-Prototyping encompasses the management of an agile software development process and the systematic evaluation of manifold feedback contributions.
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