Title: Cultural
Issues On Global Web Sites And Aspect-Oriented Requirements Engineering
Abstract: This paper
addresses cultural concern on global web sites design and related them to
requirements engineering practices. Developers and users have different ideas
of finding information on a web site. There are several factors that differentiate
users’ understandings of information presented by web designers and this should
be considered if a website is desired to be successful worldwide. We observe
that cultural concerns may crosscut several base functionalities of a system,
constraining and modifying them in different ways. The crosscutting nature
of these concerns should be contemplated at early requirements stages of
software development in order to have a more adaptable and flexible system.
Aspect-Oriented Requirements Engineering (AORE) handles crosscutting concerns
at requirements level and can be used to model cultural concerns in web applications.
This paper examines Australian, Singapore, German and Brazil sites and relating
them to requirements for users from different countries by identifying the
cultural differences that should be taken into account