10.29327/1298728.24-9
Intentionality is considered particularly important in several facets of social context. For example, police investigation usually starts based on the why, which is searching for a motive. The search for a motive is also frequent in the anamnesis process in medicine, as well as in investigative journalism. In a criminal investigation, early discovery of motive usually provides a track to identify a crimes perpetrators. When in the doctors office, the usual first question a patient has to answer is why he/she is there. In the same way, no one disagrees that software utility is the backbone of construction success. Since the task of discovering the why (goals) is abstract, subjective, and complicated, we delineate a thinking process frame, a philosophy, for guiding Requirements Engineers into focusing on intentions for the elicitation of goals. The philosophy, at the beginning of the IRES (Intentional Requirements Engineering Strategy), provides a backbone to the requirements process. It is composed of four topics (Necessity, Motivation, Goal, Action), and is linked by the intentionality and their interconnections in a given State of Affairs. The goal of this paper is to explain how this frame helps the construction of well-anchored models.
Goals Elicitation; GORE; Goal-Oriented Requirements Engineering; Intentionality; iStar Framework; Model-driven Requirements
@inproceedings{wer202117,
author = {Oliveira, A. D. P. A. and Werneck, V. M. B. and Cysneiros, L. M. and Leite, J. C. S. D. P.},
title = {The Philosophy Behind IRES, an Intentional Requirements Engineering Strategy},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the WER2021-24th Workshop on Requirements Engineering, Brasília, Brazil},
year = {2021},
issn = {2675-0066},
isbn = {978-65-00-73407-2},
doi = {10.29327/1298728.24-9}
}