About Auteuring Requirements - Lessons from Filmmaking

Abstract

Success or failure of software development projects is strongly correlated with the quality of requirements. The question: How to make RE effective continues to intrigue RE practitioners and researchers alike. The pursuit of answer to this question has encouraged researchers to explore other disciplines with the goal of finding similar challenges and possible solution patterns. We conducted an analysis of film industry processes and film theories with an aim to draw lessons for RE. In this paper, we present our observations and recommendations for RE from the Auteur theory of film criticism and script writing practices of filmmaking.