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Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Rebekka Wohlrab , Patrizio Pelliccione , Eric Knauss , Mats Larsson

This paper presents a unique approach to connecting requirements engineering (RE) activities into a process framework that can be employed to obtain quality requirements with reduced expenditures of effort and cost. We propose a two-phase…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Lester Lobo , James D. Arthur

Requirement Engineering (RE) is a Software Engineering (SE) process of defining, documenting, and maintaining the requirements from a problem. It is one of the most complex processes of SE because it addresses the relation between customer…

Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools for automating design artifact generation are increasingly used in Requirements Engineering (RE) to transform textual requirements into structured diagrams and models. While these AI tools, particularly…

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Analysis and design phases are the most crucial part of the software development life-cycle. Reusing the artifacts of these early phases is very beneficial to improve the productivity and software quality. In this paper we analyze the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-01-22 Hamdi A. Al-Jamimi , Moataz Ahmed

[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

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

The primary objective is to emphasize the merits of active methodologies and cross-disciplinary curricula in Requirement Engineering. This direction promises a holistic and applied trajectory for Computer Engineering education, supported by…

Context: Responsibility gaps, long-recognized challenges in socio-technical systems where accountability becomes diffuse or ambiguous, have become increasingly pronounced in GenAI-enabled software. The generative and adaptive nature…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Zhenyu Mao , Jacky Keung , Yicheng Sun , Yifei Wang , Shuo Liu , Jialong Li

Artifact evaluation has been adopted in the Software Engineering (SE) research community for 15 years, substantially improving research reproducibility across major SE conferences. However, this success has introduced a growing scalability…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Zhaonan Wu , Yanjie Zhao , Zhenpeng Chen , Zheng Wang , Haoyu Wang

Over the last decade, researchers and engineers have developed a vast body of methodologies and technologies in requirements engineering for self-adaptive systems. Although existing studies have explored various aspects of this topic, few…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Zhuoqun Yang , Zhi Li , Zhi Jin

In large scale agile systems development, the lack of a unified requirements engineering (RE) process is a major challenge, exacerbated by the absence of high level guiding principles for effective requirements management. To address this…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Hina Saeeda , Mijin Kim , Eric Knauss , Jesper Thyssen , Jesper Ørting , Jesper Lysemose Korsgaard , Niels Jørgen Strøm

Requirements Elicitation (RE) is a crucial activity especially in the early stages of software development. GUI prototyping has widely been adopted as one of the most effective RE techniques for user-facing software systems. However, GUI…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Kristian Kolthoff , Christian Bartelt , Simone Paolo Ponzetto , Kurt Schneider

The future of Requirements Engineering (RE) is increasingly driven by artificial intelligence (AI), reshaping how we elicit, analyze, and validate requirements. Traditional RE is based on labor-intensive manual processes prone to errors and…

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Objective: In this study, we aim to replicate an artefact-based study on software testing to address the gap. We focus on (a) providing a step by step guide of the replication, reflecting on challenges when replicating artefact-based…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Nasir Mehmood Minhas , Mohsin Irshad , Kai Petersen , Jürgen Börstler

Artefacts play a vital role in software and systems development processes. Other terms like documents, deliverables, or work products are widely used in software development communities instead of the term artefact. In the following, we use…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-04-08 D. Méndez Fernández , W. Böhm , A. Vogelsang , J. Mund , M. Broy , M. Kuhrmann , T. Weyer

Background: The artifacts used in Agile software testing and the reasons why these artifacts are used are fairly well-understood. However, empirical research on how Agile test artifacts are eventually designed in practice and which quality…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Jannik Fischbach , Henning Femmer , Daniel Mendez , Davide Fucci , Andreas Vogelsang

Medical imaging research is increasingly shifting from controlled benchmark evaluation toward real-world clinical deployment. In such settings, applying analytical methods extends beyond model design to require dataset-aware workflow…

The relevance of Requirements Engineering (RE) research to practitioners is vital for a long-term dissemination of research results to everyday practice. Some authors have speculated about a mismatch between research and practice in the RE…

Requirements engineering (RE) literature acknowledges the importance of early stakeholder identification. The sources of requirements are many and also constantly changing as the market and business constantly change. Identifying and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Eriks Klotins , Veselka Boeva , Krzysztof Wnuk , Michael Unterkalmsteiner , Tony Gorschek , Slinger Jansen