Crowdsourcing as a tool to elicit software requirements

Abstract

Requirements elicitation is a cmcial process in software development since the results affect the quality of the software. There are several challenges in gathermg requirements, for example, a lmiited perspective of the system analyst m the ability to understand the problem domain. In this paper, we propose the gathering process of software requirements utilizmg a crowdsourcing approach. We develop a system to facilitate the process of software requnements gatheiing following the crowdsourcmg workflow. The system is built on the web platform usmg the Python programming language with the Django framework and the SQLite database to make it easy for users to access this system. System evaluation is achieved by testing the system to decide the validity of the input and the generated output, then contmumg to discuss the R£ process's result earned out through the crowdsourcmg system. The results support the initial hypothesis that crowdsourcing can provide system analysts with a broad perspective and efficiency in terms of cost and time to understand the problem domam compared to the traditional methods.