What do researchers mean by "the right requirements elicitation techniques"?

Abstract

© 2016, Universidad de Tarapaca. All rights reserved. Researchers often claim that the most appropriate elicitation techniques should be chosen to capture software requirements, but: what does it mean for them? This work carried out a systematic mapping on comparisons among elicitation techniques for knowing the constructs utilized to represent their appropriateness. This study identified 43 works that utilized 58 ways of measuring the goodness of the techniques. These metrics were classified, mainly, by types of constructs such as quality, adequacy, effectiveness, quantity and efficiency. The results show the large dispersion occurring between researchers on how to select the most appropriate technique for each elicitation session and, therefore, more convergent proposals are required.