Best practices for requirements identification, specification, and validation to guide software implementation and maintenance processes for applications in an electricity supply company

Abstract

The objective of this project is to identify and adapt the best practices for the identification, specification, and validation of requirements that guide the software implementation and maintenance processes in applications of an electric company. We performed this identification through the study and analysis of the actual state of the topic in Colombia, particularly within electric companies and supported by the theoretical examples of requirements engineering. Both the examples and the methodological models identified as best practices —such as RUP, agile development (focused on Scrum), CMMI, use cases and use cases 2.0, PMI —focused on the management of the scope and stakeholders—, and BABOK support the understanding of this topic. The result is a process that collects models to improve the requirements for new developments and for the handling of change requests and incidents/emergencies, obtaining positive evaluations by expert judgement in a pilot experiment.