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Legacy software systems typically include vital data for organizations that use them and should thus to be regularly maintained. Ideally, organizations should rely on Requirements Engineers to understand and manage changes of stakeholder…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Yen Dieu Pham , Lloyd Montgomery , Walid Maalej

[Context] Domain knowledge is recognized as a key component for the success of Requirements Engineering (RE), as it provides the conceptual support needed to understand the system context, ensure alignment with stakeholder needs, and reduce…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Marina Araújo , Júlia Araújo , Romeu Oliveira , Lucas Romao , Marcos Kalinowski

In this paper, we report on our 5-year's practical experience of designing, developing and then deploying a Model-based Requirements Engineering (MBRE) approach and language in the context of three different large European collaborative…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Andrey Sadovykh , Dragos Truscan , Hugo Bruneliere

Requirements Engineering (RE) is the initial step towards building a software system. The success or failure of a software project is firmly tied to this phase, based on communication among stakeholders using natural language. The problem…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Mohammad Kasra Habib , Stefan Wagner , Daniel Graziotin

Context: The use of standards is considered a vital part of any engineering discipline. So one could expect that standards play an important role in Requirements Engineering (RE) as well. However, little is known about the actual knowledge…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Xavier Franch , Martin Glinz , Daniel Mendez , Norbert Seyff

[Context] In traditional software systems, Requirements Engineering (RE) activities are well-established and researched. However, building Artificial Intelligence (AI) based software with limited or no insight into the system's inner…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Khlood Ahmad , Mohamed Abdelrazek , Chetan Arora , Muneera Bano , John Grundy

Requirements engineering is crucial to software development but lacks a precise definition of its fundamental concepts. Even the basic definitions in the literature and in industry standards are often vague and verbose. To remedy this…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Bertrand Meyer , Jean-Michel Bruel , Sophie Ebersold , Florian Galinier , Alexandr Naumchev

Large Language Models (LLMs) are the cornerstone in automating Requirements Engineering (RE) tasks, underpinning recent advancements in the field. Their pre-trained comprehension of natural language is pivotal for effectively tailoring them…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Andreas Vogelsang , Jannik Fischbach

Requirements engineering (RE), as a part of the project development life cycle, has increasingly been recognized as the key to ensuring on-time, on-budget, and goal-based delivery of software projects;compromising this vital phase is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-06-22 Sandhya Rani Kourla , Eesha Putti , Mina Maleki

Requirements Engineering (RE) is a means to reduce the risk of delivering a product that does not fulfill the stakeholders' needs. Therefore, a major challenge in RE is to decide how much RE is needed and what RE methods to apply. The…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Florian Wiesweg , Andreas Vogelsang , Daniel Mendez

Requirements Engineering (RE) is a critical discipline mostly driven by uncertainty, since it is influenced by the customer domain or by the development process model used. We aim to investigate RE processes in successful project…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-12-01 D. Méndez Fernández , S. Wagner , K. Lochmann , A. Baumann , H. de Carne

The use of conceptual models to foster requirements engineering has been proposed and evaluated as beneficial for several decades. For instance, goal-oriented requirements engineering or the specification of scenarios are commonly done…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Marian Daun , Jennifer Brings , Marcel Goger , Walter Koch , Thorsten Weyer

The relevance of Requirements Engineering (RE) research to practitioners is a prerequisite for problem-driven research in the area and key for a long-term dissemination of research results to everyday practice. To better understand how…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-06-15 X. Franch , D. Méndez Fernández , M. Oriol , A. Vogelsang , R. Heldal , E. Knauss , G. Horta Travassos , J. C. Carver , O. Dieste , T. Zimmermann

For many years, we have observed industry struggling in defining a high quality requirements engineering (RE) and researchers trying to understand industrial expectations and problems. Although we are investigating the discipline with a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-11-30 D. Méndez Fernández , S. Wagner

Large Language Models (LLMs) are finding applications in numerous domains, and Requirements Engineering (RE) is increasingly benefiting from their capabilities to assist with complex, language-intensive tasks. This paper presents a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Mohammad Amin Zadenoori , Jacek Dąbrowski , Waad Alhoshan , Liping Zhao , Alessio Ferrari

Context: For many years, we have observed industry struggling in defining a high quality requirements engineering (RE) and researchers trying to understand industrial expectations and problems. Although we are investigating the discipline…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-11-16 Daniel Méndez Fernández , Stefan Wagner

Often during the requirements engineering (RE) process, the value of a requirement is assessed, e.g., in requirement prioritisation, release planning, and trade-off analysis. In order to support these activities, this research evaluates…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-06-17 Richard Ellis-Braithwaite

In recent years Open Innovation (OI) has gained much attention and made firms aware that they need to consider the open environment surrounding them. To facilitate this shift Requirements Engineering (RE) needs to be adapted in order to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Johan Linåker , Björn Regnell , Hussan Munir

In light of the 40th jubilee of Requirements Engineering (RE), roughly 40 experts met in Switzerland to discuss where our discipline stands today. As of today, the common view is, indisputably, that RE as a discipline is stable and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-10-13 Daniel Méndez Fernández

The main objective of the RET workshop was to explore the interaction of Requirements Engineering (RE) and Testing, i.e. RET, in research and industry, and the challenges that result from this interaction. While much work has been done in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-10-14 Michael Felderer , Elizabeth Bjarnason , Markus Borg , Michael Unterkalmsteiner , Mirko Morandini , Matt Staats