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[Context and motivation] During requirements engineering the stakeholder view is typically captured by scenario- and goal models focusing on tasks and goals to be achieved with the software. We believe that it is worthwhile to study more general personal values and attitudes of stakeholders and to relate them to software requirements. [Question/problem] The main questions of such an approach are: what values can be expected from stakeholders, how can they be elicited and what can be learned from them for requirements. [Principal ideas/results] The purpose of our research is to provide a value elicitation technique to be combined with existing requirements elicitation techniques in order to infer additional ideas for and constraints on software requirements. [Contribution] In this paper we give a preview on our approach to developing such an elicitation technique. We start with an introduction to the theory of personal values. Then we describe our envisioned approach how values can be used in the requirements engineering process.
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Proynova, R., Paech, B., Wicht, A., Wetter, T. (2010). Use of Personal Values in Requirements Engineering – A Research Preview. In: Wieringa, R., Persson, A. (eds) Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality. REFSQ 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6182. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14192-8_3
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