CRUISE: A platform for crowdsourcing Requirements Elicitation and evolution

Crowdsourcing has aroused a lot of interest in Requirements Engineering (RE) research community. RE activities are inherently complex in nature — both effort and time intensive, and quite dependent on each-other. The potential of crowdsourcing has been acknowledged for addressing complex tasks in general. We intend to study the potential of crowdsourcing for a broad spectrum of RE activities, i.e. from gathering requirements to their validation, through our proposed tool, CRUISE (Crowdsourcing for Requirements Engineering). CRUISE is aimed at involving interested users for gathering, analysing, validating, prioritizing, and negotiating requirements. In this paper, we present our vision and future roadmap for our proposed tool, CRUISE. We also report our observations from preliminary investigation experimental study to check the feasibility and viability of crowdsourcing based tool for Requirements Elicitation activity.

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