Author(s)

Wagner Varalda, Ítalo S. Vega

Program of Intelligence Technologies and Digital Design, Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.

The Software Engineering aims to develop, within the deadlines and costs established, quality software and that meets the needs of its users. To be made the definition of what the software should do (to establish its purpose), it included the execution of activity the Requirements Engineering, where the context of software to be developed is identified, examined and specified. All other activities of software development depend primarily on this activity. However, there is a problem increasingly in evidence: understand the context of software to be developed. This article aims to present a proposal to face this problem through the use of specific hermeneutical methods for the Requirements Engineering, which will help the software development team understand the original needs of the business to be attended. The basic idea is to produce a hermeneutic specification acceptable, which will be used for the extraction and the specification of the software requirements to be developed. In essence, the hermeneutics focuses on the true interpretation and understanding in contextualized of what is intended to know. The Hermeneutical Engineering of Requirements comes to be the result of the adequacy of methods hermeneutical to assist, specifically the activity of Engineering of Requirements.

Software Development, Requirements Engineering, Hermeneutics, Hermeneutical Methods

Varalda, W. and Vega, Í. (2017) Hermeneutical Engineering of Requirements. Journal of Computer and Communications, 5, 7-16. doi: 10.4236/jcc.2017.52002.