Distributed requirement elicitation using patterns

In recent years, internet-based software engineering have attracted an increasing attention in the area of software engineering, as it is an enabling technology to meet the challenges of developing software under tightening market condition. Therefore, a number of researchers put their efforts on distributed requirement engineering to eliminate transportation and accommodation cost. However, as without face-to-face communication, requirements collected through Internet is trended to be un-structured, incorrect, imprecise and incomplete. In this paper, we proposed a framework for pattern-aided requirement elicitation in a distributed environment. The proposed elicitation pattern is based on the concept of use-case and goal, which are useful for acquiring, analyzing and modeling functional and nonfunctional requirements.