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Tool Support for
Requirements Engineering
Introduction
It has been estimated that by 2009 automated approaches to requirements engi-
neering will reduce development costs by 30%. In addition, because of the use
of these tools, user satisfaction with medium to large systems will improve from
“fair” to “good” in that timeframe. Finally, by 2009, maintenance and enhance-
ment costs for medium to large systems developed using such tools will decline by
10% (Light 2005).
Word processors, databases, spreadsheets, content analyzers, concept mapping
programs, automated requirements checkers, and so on are all tools of interest to
the requirem ...