Requirements Elicitation with the Existence of Similar Applications: A Conceptual Framework

In the increasingly competitive intensive-software system market, it is essential for companies to have consistency and comprehensive understanding of development process, continuous progress, and ever-changing user needs of their application domain. Nowadays, user feedback is considered as the crux of the requirements engineering process. However, the diversity in data in terms of source, velocity and volume demand to exploit powerful and adaptive analysis techniques aimed at extracting information for supporting software and requirements engineering decisions as well. For instance, automated elicitation of the requirements has been investigated in conjunction with multi-criteria, which may take into account the different perspective of stakeholders. Whereas other factors like similar applications with the presence of user feedback and different decision makers perspective are slightly investigated. In this paper, a conceptual framework that can be useful for automated requirements elicitation is introduced. It combines three key elements as one unit: explicit user feedback, different stakeholder's perspective, and similar applications. As a next step to polish our work, we have carefully planned to validate the proposed framework. Furthermore, a tool-support will be designed to automate the conceptual framework. The ultimate goal of this framework aims to help software companies to identify the optimal requirements and features of application in a particular domain, hence reducing human efforts, improving the quality of the product, increasing user satisfaction, improving sustainability in the market and reducing the development lifecycle.