The potentials of a code generator which faces the stress ratio of requirements engineering processes in agile development projects

Abstract

The agile software development method is common in many software development companies worldwide. The following paper approaches an universal problem of agile development projects in the whole software development branch of industry. Unfortunately, in many cases, the requirements are incomplete and the projects are under-specified. Imprecise requirements and specifications cause not only problems in the development, but they also result in inaccurate cost estimations. This leads to problems even in the development and in the requirements engineering. Moreover, the lack of clear specifications may lead to further customer requests at the development time. They might be realized at very high costs. This increases the time pressure for the developers. In order to realize the software in time, the developers lower the quality level of the code. A lack of quality causes technical debts which reduces the economic efficiency of the system considerably. A potential solution, proposed in the paper, is the use of code-generation systems. The use of a code generator could offer potentials to improve the processes of requirements engineering. The support of these generators enables the software developers to focus on the requirements engineering. As the generated code contributes directly to the sprint goal, this approach could be well accepted by the developers. The potentials of such a concept are investigated.