Visualization based tools for software requirement elicitation

Effective requirements engineering lies at the heart of an organization's ability to guide the ship and to keep pace with the rising tide of complexity. Requirements therefore form the basis for: project planning, risk management, acceptance testing, tradeoff and change control. There are several tools and techniques for requirement elicitation process. This paper gives review of five elicitation based tools in context with visualization of requirements to stakeholders. Benefits and limitations of tools have been presented and the limitations reflect the aspects of improvements.