QWE2002 Paper 10M Dr. Robert Darimont, Ms. Emmanuelle Delor & Mr. Andre Rifaut (CEDITI) Quality Starts by Defining Goals

Key Points

• Inadaquate requirements analysis leads to major quality issues.
• The Kaos methodology allows analysts to produce very high-quality requirements documents.
• The Kaos methodology is goal-oriented and is supported by a tool: Grail.

Presentation Abstract

The paper presents the principles of the Kaos method, the functions of the Grail tool, the process followed during analyses, and feedback from experience to carry out requirements analyses, to draw up IT master plans, strategic analyses and IT specifications.

About the Author

Robert Darimont received the MS and PhD degrees in applied sciences (softare engineering orientation) from UCL (Université catholique de Louvain), Belgium. He is the manager of the IT consulting and R&D department at CEDITI, the IT transfer center of the University of Louvain. He leads industrial projects using Kaos; and helps companies to adopt up to date and precompetitive software engineering technologies.

Emmanuelle Delor received the MS degree in computer science from the University of Namur, Belgium. She is senior consultant at CEDITI, the IT transfer center of the University of Louvain. She participates to industrial projects using Kaos, and is responsible for the QA program at CEDITI.

Andre Rifaut received the MS degree in applied sciences (applied mathematics orientation) from UCL (Université catholique de Louvain), Belgium. He is senior consultant at CEDITI, the IT transfer center of the University of Louvain. He participates to industrial projects using Kaos, and is involved in the design of advanced features of Grail, the tool supporting the Kaos methodology.