Role of visualization in tacit knowledge: extraction and applications in software requirements

Abstract

Requirements have a proven role and considered as an important factor in designing and producing good quality software. Further available literature depicts precisely, comprehensively that poorly defined, organized requirements increase the cost of development, time for the development and more importantly leads to software product failure. It is of highest priority and importance for the developers, retailers as well as for the clients to verify that the designed and planned system satisfies their needs or not. In today’s world while designing, developing system, the knowledge extraction becomes an important area for research and key focus in order to compile and share knowledge. In knowledge extraction, explicit and tacit knowledge are the two categories of knowledge. Explicit knowledge is simple to perceive and understand due to its simplicity and clarity. Tacit knowledge is not that easily understandable due to its complex nature and as it resides under the experts’ mind. In this research, we have given enumerated illustrations and account of nature of tacit knowledge and different frameworks. Another vital contribution in this research is that it establishes rules and proposes a framework for tacit knowledge derivations. Further, implementing these proposed rules will help eliciting tacit knowledge without consuming more cost and effort. We have also focused on UI generation via different visualization tools or technologies developed for requirements representation that will be further validated by using case studies and using real events or scenarios data.