Best practices for requirements identification, specification, and validation to guide software implementation and maintenance processes for applications in an electricity supply company

Authors

  • Gloria Yolanda López Herrera Universidad Autónoma de Manizales
  • Juan Carlos Jiménez Sanz Universidad Autónoma de Manizales

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18046/syt.v13i35.2152

Keywords:

BABOK, CMMI, RUP, PMI, Scrum, use cases.

Abstract

The objective of this project is to identify and adapt the best practices for the identification, specification, and validation of requirements that guide the software implementation and maintenance processes in applications of an electric company. We performed this identification through the study and analysis of the actual state of the topic in Colombia, particularly within electric companies and supported by the theoretical examples of requirements engineering. Both the examples and the methodological models identified as best practices —such as RUP, agile development (focused on Scrum), CMMI, use cases and use cases 2.0, PMI —focused on the management of the scope and stakeholders—, and BABOK support the understanding of this topic. The result is a process that collects models to improve the requirements for new developments and for the handling of change requests and incidents/emergencies, obtaining positive evaluations by expert judgement in a pilot experiment.

Author Biographies

  • Gloria Yolanda López Herrera, Universidad Autónoma de Manizales
    Systems Engineer, Specialist in Software Engineering from the Universidad Autónoma de Manizales (Colombia). She works for an electricity supply company in its TI area implementing, maintaining and managing information systems
  • Juan Carlos Jiménez Sanz, Universidad Autónoma de Manizales

    Ingeniero de Sistemas con especializaciones en Informática/Computación y Desarrollo Gerencial, MBA en administración con énfasis en proyectos.

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Published

2015-12-03

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 35 (2015)

Section

Discussion papers

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