Requirement Elicitation in Web Applications: Challenges

Requirement elicitation is a vital activity in the process of requirement development and it discovers the requirements of end users. The successfulness of this process mainly depends on identifying the appropriate stakeholders and exploring their needs and the quality of requirements. This is greatly influenced by techniques adopted during requirements elicitation process.  Complete and structured requirements can make projects more consistent. The most common challenges faced by the analyst during elicitation process are to guarantee effectual communication between stakeholders and acquisition of implicit knowledge. Most of the faults in the systems are mainly due to poor communication between stakeholder and analyst, and these faults require more time and money to correct them. The improper understandability during elicitation process of web applications can lead to requirements ambiguity, inconsistency, incorrect and unfeasible [1]. Conversational, Observational, Analytical and Synthetic are available elicitation methods to deal with the difficulty during requirement elicitation process. Selection of an appropriate method or set of methods for the unambiguous, consistent and correct requirement gathering is a challenge for analysts.