A general framework for describing the requirements engineering process

This article concerns automated guidance of the requirements engineering process in a CASE environment. We see guidance as part of a broader framework for process tracing, method engineering and process control which is sketched in the paper. This framework supports the claim that a process knowledge base cannot be built once and for all but must be constantly improved. This leads to the idea of a process knowledge base composed of a set of process chunks which are progressively defined. This is achieved by using the concepts of a guidance meta-model which is the kernel of the paper.<>