The NERV methodology: A lightweight process for addressing non-functional requirements in agile software development

Darshan Domah; Frank J. Mitropoulos

doi:10.1109/SECON.2015.7133028

The NERV methodology: A lightweight process for addressing non-functional requirements in agile software development

Darshan Domah
, Frank J. Mitropoulos

Nova Southeastern University

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Abstract

Agile software development has become very popular around the world in recent years, with methods such as Scrum and Extreme Programming (XP). Literature suggests that functionality is the primary focus in Agile processes while non-functional requirements (NFRs) are either ignored or ill-defined. However, for software to be of good quality both functional requirements (FRs) and NFRs need to be taken into consideration; lack of attention to NFRs has been documented to be the cause of failure for many software projects. Hence special attention needs to be focused on NFRs in Agile software development. Requirements elicitation, implementation in design, development, and validation are important activities of software development. Agile has good processes to elicit functional requirements that are captured as user stories. However, NFRs elicitation has not been given enough attention within Agile processes. Additionally, reasoning and validating of NFRs have been lacking. This research proposes the 'NERV Methodology: Nonfunctional Requirements Elicitation, Reasoning, and Validation in Agile Processes.' Current results show the artifacts developed in this research can potentially help software development organizations address NFRs in early Agile processes.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	IEEE SoutheastCon 2015 - Conference Proceedings
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Edition	June
ISBN (Electronic)	9781467373005
ISBN (Print)	9781467373005
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2015.7133028
State	Published - Jun 24 2015
Event	IEEE SoutheastCon 2015 - Fort Lauderdale, United States Duration: Apr 9 2015 → Apr 12 2015

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Name	SoutheastCon 2015

Conference

Conference	IEEE SoutheastCon 2015
Country/Territory	United States
City	Fort Lauderdale
Period	4/9/15 → 4/12/15

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© 2015 IEEE.

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

Computer Networks and Communications
Software
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Control and Systems Engineering
Signal Processing

Keywords

Agile software development
Agile user stories
functional requirements
NERV Methodology
NFR
NFR Elicitation Taxonomy
NFR Quantification Taxonomy
NFR Reasoning Taxonomy
NFRusCOM
non-functional requirements
Scrum

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The NERV methodology: A lightweight process for addressing non-functional requirements in agile software development. / Domah, Darshan; Mitropoulos, Frank J.
IEEE SoutheastCon 2015 - Conference Proceedings. June. ed. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2015. 7133028 (SoutheastCon 2015).

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Domah, D & Mitropoulos, FJ 2015, The NERV methodology: A lightweight process for addressing non-functional requirements in agile software development. in IEEE SoutheastCon 2015 - Conference Proceedings. June edn, 7133028, SoutheastCon 2015, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., IEEE SoutheastCon 2015, Fort Lauderdale, United States, 4/9/15. https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2015.7133028

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