Requirements Engineering for ABC Pty Ltd Mobile/Web App

Establishing your Credentials in Requirements Engineering for ABC Pty Ltd

Task:

In your reading and activities for this subject, you have discovered the concept of requirement engineering and the entire procedures that involved in the process derived from the real-world cases. You also explored the importance of requirement engineering and the relevant case studies have guided you to understand it further. By undertaking this assessment, you will be able to contextualise and explain the high-level concepts of requirement engineering and explain the role of requirement engineering in achieving organizational success.

You, as a group, should first read and understand the following case before proceeding to answer the questions in Assessment Tasks section. Note that every piece of information provided in the following case serves a purpose.

ABC Pty Ltd is a start-up tech company (the ‘Company’) based in Sydney Australia. They are currently seeking to develop a mobile app or a web application (collectively called an ‘app’), which provide ondemand trades & handyman services to their customers. The objective of the app is to connect tradesmen and customers. ABC envisioned that this app will provide a strong revenue stream to the company and other business opportunities from a wide handyman network. The founder of the Company has envisaged an app that enable customers to find trustworthy tradesmen to get the job done; it is also a platform for tradespersons to find jobs and earn an extra income stream. Typical jobs posted on the platform should include home cleaning, heating and cooling system services, gardening, airport pick up & delivery, IKEA furniture assembly, garbage removal, plumbing, and other tradesmen & handyman jobs. The founder also provided the following very highlevel and rough ideas for the app: For customers, they can post job(s) on the app, browse through tradespersons’ profile, and contact them through the in-app instant messenger.

For tradespersons, they can put up a profile on the app, browse through jobs available, and contact customers through the in-app instance messenger. Once the job is completed, payment can be made securely through the app. The customer will also have the opportunity to rate and review the tradesperson. ABC wants to push this app to the market in the next six months and have secured an investment for this app. ABC has engaged you (i.e. a group of you) as the requirements analyst in this project.

Assessment tasks

Part A. As a group write a report addressing the following tasks:

1. Establish your credentials in giving requirements engineering advice to ABC. Note that you are not a student in this case. You are required to undertake some research and identify qualifications, certificates or experiences related to requirements engineering that will add to your credentials.

2. Advise ABC Pty Ltd of the importance of requirements engineering, and the implications of not having in place proper requirement engineering practices in the project.

3. Advise ABC Pty Ltd of the key processes in requirements engineering in relation to the project. Provide (a) a description of each requirements engineering process; (b) the objectives, the main activities, key stakeholders and outputs of each process.

4. Advise ABC Pty Ltd of a plan for requirement elicitation for the proposed app. Given the nature of this app, what are the requirements elicitation activities you would perform? Justify your choices. Provide detailed descriptions of at least two requirements elicitation techniques. For example, if an interview is to be conducted, you will need to provide:

• who are the interviewees;
• who are the interviewers;
• the interview questions;

Your report should include the following

1. Title page: Subject code and name, assessment number, report title, assessment due date, word count (actual), student names, student IDs, Torrens email address, campus learning facilitator, and Subject coordinator. Not included in the word count.

2. Executive summary: should include the purpose of the report, the problem including key issues considered and how they were investigated, and your findings. This part should be approximately.