Journal of Computer and Communications, 2017, 5, 7-16 http://www.scirp.org/journal/jcc ISSN Online: 2327-5227 ISSN Print: 2327-5219 DOI: 10.4236/jcc.2017.52002 February 7, 2017 Hermeneutical Engineering of Requirements Wagner Varalda, Ítalo S. Vega Program of Intelligence Technologies and Digital Design, Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil Abstract The Software Engineering aims to develop, within the deadlines and costs es- tablished, quality software and that meets the needs of its users. To be made the definition of what the software should do (to establish its purpose), it in- cluded the execution of activity the Requirements Engineering, where the context of software to be developed is identified, examined and specified. All other activities of software development depend primarily on this activity. However, there is a problem increasingly in evidence: understand the context of software to be developed. This article aims to present a proposal to face this problem through the use of specific hermeneutical methods for the Require- ments Engineering, which will help the software development team under- stand the original needs of the business to be attended. The basic idea is to produce a hermeneutic specification acceptable, which will be used for the ex- traction and the specification of the software requirements to be developed. In essence, the hermeneutics focuses on the true interpretation and understand- ing in contextualized of what is intended to know. The Hermeneutical Engi- neering of Requirements comes to be the result of the adequacy of methods hermeneutical to assist, specifically the activity of Engineering of Require- ments. Keywords Software Development, Requirements Engineering, Hermeneutics, Hermeneutical Methods 1. Introduction Within deadlines and costs established, develop quality software that meets the needs of its users; this has been (and still is) the great challenge of software en- gineering, as have shown the several studies of the area. Notable are the results of the report of chaos (The Chaos Report): 94% of projects that start should be initiated because the applications did not meet the expected characteristics, re- sulting, on average, increase 128% of the cost initially estimated for the project How to cite this paper: Varalda, W. and Vega, Í.S. (2017) Hermeneutical Engineer- ing of Requirements. Journal of Computer and Communications, 5, 7-16. https://doi.org/10.4236/jcc.2017.52002 Received: December 7, 2016 Accepted: February 4, 2017 Published: February 7, 2017 Copyright © 2017 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY 4.0). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Open Access