Abstract:
This paper addresses cultural concerns on global
websites design and relates them to advanced
requirements practices. Developers and users have
different ideas offinding 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 to have more adaptable and
flexible systems. Aspect-Oriented Requirements
Engineering handles crosscutting concerns at
requirements level and can be used to model
cultural concerns in web applications. This paper
examines Australian, Singaporean, German and
Brazilian sites and relates them to requirements of
users from different countries by identifying the
cultural differences that should be taken into
account.
