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Prototyping Use as a Software Requirements Elicitation Technique: A Case Study

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Prototyping is an agile software development methodology. It has also been proposed as a technique to obtain the software requirements from the stakeholders. However, there are few publications proposing a prescriptive guide and show its use in practice. This article presents a report of a case in which the prototype technique was used to elicit requirements of a software system in the university academic context. For this, authors propose a procedure to apply and they carry out elicitation sessions with two stakeholders who have different familiarity with the domain. The results show that the technique is effective in achieving a high coverage of the requirements and that it seems to perform better with stakeholders who have more familiarity with the domain. Although the results do not have statistical power, the case yields trends that can help development teams adopt this technique to produce the requirements in certain cases.

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This work was funded by the Research fund of the University of Atacama, project DIUDA 22298.

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    Dante Carrizo & Iván Quintanilla

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Carrizo, D., Quintanilla, I. (2018). Prototyping Use as a Software Requirements Elicitation Technique: A Case Study. In: Rocha, Á., Adeli, H., Reis, L., Costanzo, S. (eds) Trends and Advances in Information Systems and Technologies. WorldCIST'18 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 746. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77712-2_33

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