Wiki-based Requirements Management for Business Process Reengineering

This paper presents WikiReq, a project exploiting the Semantic Mediawiki to manage both system and organizational requirements in the context of Business Process Reengineering (BPR). Our work is based on three ideas: 1) using a semantic wiki for requirements elicitation and management; 2) exploiting the wiki platform to define an argumentation system for both synchronous and asynchronous discussions among stakeholders; 3) achieving interoperability between the semantic wiki and an Integrated Development Engineering (IDE) platform like Eclipse. Thus, we show how requirements acquired by the Semantic Mediawiki can be exported in the Eclipse IDE in order to partially automate the rendering of organizational business processes and system artifacts from the requirements description. We present the WikiReq tool highlighting its relationships with model driven engineering and business process modeling in order to show how WikiReq can be used in the context of a full featured software engineering framework.