Elicitation Techniques for Internet of Things Applications Requirements: A Systematic Review

Abstract

Requirements elicitation is one of the most essential activities in requirements engineering. The last twenty years have seen a growing trend towards Internet of Things and these new applications imposed a challenge for requirements engineers to elicit requirements. The aim of this paper is to identify and present the current trends of elicitation techniques that have been applied in Internet of Things application. To achieve this aim, an electronic search on two computing-related databases was included in this systematic review. After a thorough scanned independently done by the writers, 12 selected publications were examined. The findings of this systematic review revealed that (1) home and public spaces were prevalent domains for Internet of Things applications, (2) interviews and prototypes were most frequently used elicitation techniques, and (3) stakeholders were the common requirements sources.