Morphological Approach in Creative Requirements Elicitation from Crowdsourcing

Authors

  • Sa’adah Hassan Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia.
  • Tengku Azharuddin Tuan Mohd Amin Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia.
  • Novia Admodisastro Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia.
  • Azrina Kamaruddin Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia.

Keywords:

Creativity, Crowdsourcing, Morphological Approach, Requirements Elicitation,

Abstract

Creativity is a subject that gained increasing interest in requirements engineering field. Creative-based requirements elicitation helps in generating requirements in original and innovative ways. Lately, crowdsourcing has been emerged in requirements elicitation after realizing the benefits of crowd. Crowdsourcing allows a wide diversity of stakeholders able to express their perceptions about product. However, to analyze the large amount of ideas from crowd would be a great challenge. This work focuses on how ideas gathered from the crowd and then analyzed using morphological approach in deriving requirements for the software product. Furthermore, the involvement of crowd in the approach helps in eliciting creative ideas for producing an innovative software product.

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2017-10-20

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Hassan, S., Tuan Mohd Amin, T. A., Admodisastro, N., & Kamaruddin, A. (2017). Morphological Approach in Creative Requirements Elicitation from Crowdsourcing. Journal of Telecommunication, Electronic and Computer Engineering (JTEC), 9(3-5), 31–35. Retrieved from https://jtec.utem.edu.my/jtec/article/view/2959

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Vol. 9 No. 3-5: Special Issue on Software Engineering III

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