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Thematic Review and Analysis of Grounded Theory Application in Software Engineering

Table 3

Metacodes for requirements engineering.

NumberRequirement engineering metacodesTags/description

1ChallengesDistance, communications, knowledge management, customer culture, and awareness of processes for RE
2ElicitationThese metacodes refer to the standard RE activities
3Prioritization
4Negotiation
5Validation
6Specification
7Examining current systemExisting system attributes
8Business objectivesBusiness objectives of the current software project to which RE is being performed
9Primary business attributesNature of users, expected project contribution to business goals, and so forth
10Primary project attributesType of requirements, RE process, and complexity of requirements, etc.
11RE process attributesIterative development, development team and business analysis team, etc.