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Modern Requirements Documentation Techniques and the Influence of the Project Context: Ukrainian IT Experience

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Advances in Computer Science for Engineering and Education (ICCSEEA 2022)

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The success of development and testing activities depends on the quality of the requirement engineering and business analysis deliverables. The most important part of them is requirement and design specification. Many specification and modeling techniques may be used alternatively or in conjunction with others to accomplish a particular business analysis document. Business analysts should select the most appropriate techniques based on the project context, their previous experience, considering budget and time restrictions. The paper aims to analyze the current practices of requirement specification in modeling and define dependencies between project attributes and techniques. We conducted a survey study involving 328 specialists from Ukrainian IT companies and a series of interviews with experts to interpret the survey results. The results can be used to enhance educational programs for IT specialists, taking into account the needs of Ukrainian companies. A set of statistically significant dependencies between project context and requirements documentation techniques allows developing a business analysis approach recommendation system.

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  1. National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”, Kyiv, Ukraine

    Denys Gobov

  2. National Aviation University, Kyiv, Ukraine

    Inna Huchenko

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  1. School of Computer Science, Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan, China

    Zhengbing Hu

  2. Faculty of Applied Mathematics, National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kiev Polytechnic Institute”, Kiev, Ukraine

    Ivan Dychka

  3. Mechanical Engineering Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

    Sergey Petoukhov

  4. Halmos College of Arts and Sciences, Nova Southeastern University, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA

    Matthew He

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Gobov, D., Huchenko, I. (2022). Modern Requirements Documentation Techniques and the Influence of the Project Context: Ukrainian IT Experience. In: Hu, Z., Dychka, I., Petoukhov, S., He, M. (eds) Advances in Computer Science for Engineering and Education. ICCSEEA 2022. Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies, vol 134. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04812-8_22

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