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Requirements Engineering and Software Testing are mature areas and have seen a lot of research. Nevertheless, their interactions have been sparsely explored beyond the concept of traceability. To fill this gap, we propose a definition of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Michael Unterkalmsteiner , Robert Feldt , Tony Gorschek

Requirements engineering (RE) is a key area to address sustainability concerns in system development. Approaches have been proposed to elicit sustainability requirements from interested stakeholders before system design. However, existing…

Prototyping is an effective and efficient way of requirement validation to avoid introducing errors in the early stage of software development. However, manually developing a prototype of a software system requires additional efforts, which…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-08-12 Yilong Yang , Xiaoshan Li , Zhiming Liu , Wei Ke , Quan Zu , Xiaohong Chen

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

Background: Nowadays, regulatory requirements engineering (regulatory RE) faces challenges of interdisciplinary nature that cannot be tackled due to existing research gaps. Aims: We envision an approach to solve some of the challenges…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Oleksandr Kosenkov , Michael Unterkalmsteiner , Daniel Mendez , Davide Fucci

Context and motivation. Online user feedback is a valuable resource for requirements engineering, but its volume and noise make analysis difficult. Existing tools support individual feedback analysis tasks, but their capabilities are rarely…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Manjeshwar Aniruddh Mallya , Alessio Ferrari , Mohammad Amin Zadenoori , Jacek Dąbrowski

When designing a new presentation front-end called FlexiView for requirements modeling tools, we encountered a general problem: designing such an interface requires a lot of experimentation which is costly when the code of the tool needs to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-07-12 Parisa Ghazi , Zahra Shakeri Hossein Abad , Martin Glinz

Specifying and implementing flexible human-computer dialogs, such as those used in kiosks and smart phone apps, is challenging because of the numerous and varied directions in which each user might steer a dialog. The objective of this…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-12-22 Saverio Perugini

Understanding and modeling buyer intent is a foundational challenge in optimizing search query reformulation within the dynamic landscape of e-commerce search systems. This work introduces a robust data pipeline designed to mine and analyze…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Jayanth Yetukuri , Ishita Khan

Behavior Engineering (BE) provides a rigorous way to derive a formal specification of a software system from the requirements written in natural language. Its graphical specification language, Behavior Tree (BT), has been used with success…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-01-22 Kushal Ahmed , Toby Myers , Lian Wen , Abdul Sattar

Requirements quality is central to successful software and systems engineering. Empirical research on quality defects in natural language requirements relies heavily on datasets, ideally as realistic and representative as possible. However,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Henning Femmer , Frank Houdek , Max Unterbusch , Andreas Vogelsang

With the rise of social media like Twitter and distribution platforms like app stores, users have various ways to express their opinions about software products. Popular software vendors get user feedback thousandfold per day. Research has…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Christoph Stanik , Walid Maalej

We find, motivated by real-world applications, that the well-known request-response specification comes with multiple variations, and that these variations should be distinguished. As the first main contribution, we introduce a…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Daichi Aiba , Masaki Waga , Hiroya Fujinami , Koko Muroya , Shutaro Ouchi , Naoki Ueda , Yosuke Yokoyama , Yuta Wada , Ichiro Hasuo

Requirements Engineering (RE) plays a pivotal role in software development, encompassing tasks such as requirements elicitation, analysis, specification, and change management. Despite its critical importance, RE faces challenges including…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Malik Abdul Sami , Muhammad Waseem , Zheying Zhang , Zeeshan Rasheed , Kari Systä , Pekka Abrahamsson

Requirements engineering is a knowledge intensive process and crucial for the success of engineering projects. The field of knowledge-based requirements engineering (KBRE) aims to support engineers by providing knowledge to assist in the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Lasse M. Reinpold , Marvin Schieseck , Lukas P. Wagner , Felix Gehlhoff , Alexander Fay

This paper builds on existing Goal Oriented Requirements Engineering (GORE) research by presenting a methodology with a supporting tool for analysing and demonstrating the alignment between software requirements and business objectives.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-03-26 Richard Ellis-Braithwaite , Russell Lock , Ray Dawson , Badr Haque

In this paper, we discuss an approach to system requirements engineering, which is based on using models of the responsibilities assigned to agents in a multi-agency system of systems. The responsibility models serve as a basis for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-09-25 Ian Sommerville , Russell Lock , Tim Storer

The Lumiere Project centers on harnessing probability and utility to provide assistance to computer software users. We review work on Bayesian user models that can be employed to infer a users needs by considering a user's background,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-02-01 Eric J. Horvitz , John S. Breese , David Heckerman , David Hovel , Koos Rommelse

Event-B is a formal approach oriented to system modeling and analysis. It supports refinement mechanism that enables stepwise modeling and verification of a system. By using refinement, the complexity of verification can be spread and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-10-29 Tsutomu Kobayashi , Shinichi Honiden

Experimental designs reflect assumptions about variable relationships that determine what causal queries researchers can answer through the experiment. Accounting for and communicating these assumptions is essential for drawing valid,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-15 London Bielicke , Anna Zhang , Shruti Tyagi , Emery Berger , Adam Chlipala , Eunice Jun