Requirements Engineering for Enterprise Applications Development: Seven Challenges in Higher Education Environment

This paper describes the challenges on the requirements engineering for developing an enterprise applications in higher education environment. The development activities include software implementation, maintenance, and enhancement and support for online transaction processing and overnight batch processing. Generally, an enterprise application for higher education environment may include Student Information System (SIS), HR/Payroll system, Financial Systems etc. By the way, there are so many challenges in requirement engineering phases in order to provide two distinctive services that are production processing support and systems development.

Authors:

• Jamaludin Sallim

Keywords:

• enterprise applications development
• enterprise information systems
• business process
• requirement engineering
• requirement standards
• software development activities
• software requirement reviews.

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