Title: Strategy-focused requirements engineering method for web applications

Authors: Lana S. Al-Salem, Ala M. Abu-Samaha

Addresses: 81 Akti Miaouli Street, 6th Floor, 18538, Piraeus, Greece. ' Faculty of Information Technology, Amman University Post Office 19328, Jordan

Abstract: The Web-based Business Applications concept goes well beyond e-commerce, e-banking and e-business as it encompasses the business strategies and processes of the organisation. In this context, aligning web application requirements to the organisation|s business strategy is as important as the functional requirements of these applications. The paper presents an Extended Web Application Requirements Engineering (eWARE) method that is strategy-focused to align requirements to business strategy and to elicit legal, technological, business, marketing and content requirements. eWARE is an adaptation of two methods: Viewpoint-oriented Requirements Definition (VORD) to elicit web applications requirements and Balanced Scorecard (BSC) to aid in planning/analysing a business strategy.

Keywords: requirements engineering; web applications; strategic alignment; balanced scorecard; BSC; viewpoint-oriented requirements definition; VORD; business strategy.

DOI: 10.1504/IJWET.2007.014440

International Journal of Web Engineering and Technology, 2007 Vol.3 No.4, pp.397 - 419

Published online: 08 Jul 2007 *

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