Requirement Collection

Template

In order to gather requirements from EGI user communities in a systematic way, we design this template to be used for extracting requirements from various communication and interaction activities during requirement collection processes.

The template provides a structured framework with guiding questions. It captures the state-of-the-art experiences from various EGI involved projects, such as INDIGO, EGI-InSPIRE, EGI-Engage, and ENVRI. It is based on the Open Distributed Processing (ODP) framework, an ISO standard, and uses a case-study driven approach. A Case Study is an implementation of a research method involving an up-close, in-depth, and detailed examination of a subject of study (the case), as well as its related contextual conditions. The Case Study will be based on a set of User Stories, i.e. how the researcher describes the steps to solve each part of the problem addressed. In practice, the user community shall be notified that the selection of the use stories shall be representative reflecting both of the research challenge and complexity, and of the possible solutions offered by the investigation project. User Stories are the starting point of Use Cases, where they are transformed into a description using software engineering terms (like the actors, scenario, preconditions, etc. Use Cases are useful to capture the requirements that will be handled by the technology provider, and can be tracked, e.g., by a Backlog system from an OpenProject tool.