Analysis of Current Requirements Engineering Techniques in End-User Computing.

Selecting appropriate techniques is often a challenging task for Requirements Engineering. In this regard, several methods have been proposed for RE techniques' selection from different viewpoints. The most important step for any RE techniques' selection method is the evaluation and analysis of the RE techniques. Prior to evaluation of RE techniques, identification of RE techniques' attributes is necessary. End-User Computing, on the other hand, as an area of software development domain is faced to the same problem. Moreover, due to special characteristics of the End-User Computing context, Requirements Engineering and RE techniques selection are more complicated issues. This paper aims to investigate the situation of RE techniques in End-User Computing through assessment of a representative set of RE techniques. In addition, the results of this study help the RE researchers in selecting an appropriate set of RE techniques as well as development of new techniques or adaptation of existing RE techniques in End-User Computing area. In this study first the most important attributes of RE techniques are identified and then evaluation of RE techniques based on these attributes is accomplished through a survey. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]