Social Aspects in Software Engineering
- Combined Workshops SofTEAM and SENSE –
SE 09, Kaiserslautern, Germany, March 3rd
A Web Platform for
Social Requirements Engineering
Steffen Lohmann, Phili
St ff L h Philipp Heim
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Interactive Systems and Interaction Design
University of Duisburg-Essen
Lotharstrasse 65 45057 D i b
Lh 65, Duisburg, G
Germany
Sebastian Dietzold, Norman Heino
Agile Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web
University of Leipzig
Johannisgasse 26, 04009 Leipzig, Germany
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Steffen Lohmann, Sebastian Dietzold, Philipp Heim, Norman Heino

Today’s RE tools
Support a relatively small g p of experts
pp y group p
Too heavyweight for untrained stakeholders
Limited support for collaboration among many participants
Communication via additional tools or face to face contact
face-to-face
Problems: Transparency, Tracking and Tracing
Steffen Lohmann, Sebastian Dietzold, Philipp Heim, Norman Heino

Social Requirements Engineering
Offer integrated collaboration features
Easy-to-use and foster stakeholder engagement
Track and trace collaboration activities
Social Software concepts – well-suited
well suited
Characteristics: community- and user-orientation, simplicity, quick
collaboration, self-organization, social feedback, transparency, and
emerging structures
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Steffen Lohmann, Sebastian Dietzold, Philipp Heim, Norman Heino

Demo – Web Platform for Social RE
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Steffen Lohmann, Sebastian Dietzold, Philipp Heim, Norman Heino

Demo – Web Platform for Social RE
Steffen Lohmann, Sebastian Dietzold, Philipp Heim, Norman Heino

Conclusions
Main goal:
RE as a social experience
Main Challenge:
Conflicting demands (social & formal)
Thank you for your attention!
Steffen Lohmann, Sebastian Dietzold, Philipp Heim, Norman Heino