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Context: Over the last decade, software 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…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-06-29 Zhuoqun Yang , Zhi Li , Zhi Jin , He Zhang

[Context] Artificial intelligence (AI) components used in building software solutions have substantially increased in recent years. However, many of these solutions focus on technical aspects and ignore critical human-centered aspects.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Khlood Ahmad , Mohamed Abdelrazek , Chetan Arora , Arbind Agrahari Baniya , Muneera Bano , John Grundy

Requirements quality research, which is dedicated to assessing and improving the quality of requirements specifications, is dependent on research artifacts like data sets (containing information about quality defects) and implementations…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Julian Frattini , Lloyd Montgomery , Davide Fucci , Michael Unterkalmsteiner , Daniel Mendez , Jannik Fischbach

This paper presents research on current industry practices with respect to requirements engineering as implemented within software development companies in New Zealand. A survey instrument is designed and deployed. The results are analysed…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-07-24 Alison Talbot , Andy M. Connor

[Background] Research on requirements engineering (RE) for mobile apps employs datasets formed by app users, developers or vendors. However, little is known about the sources of these datasets in terms of platforms and the RE activities…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Chong Wang , Haoning Wu , Peng Liang , Maya Daneva , Marten van Sinderen

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 phase in the software development process that generates requirements specifications from stakeholders' needs. Recently, deep learning techniques have been successful in several RE tasks. However,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Dongming Jin , Zhi Jin , Xiaohong Chen , Chunhui Wang

Availability of powerful computation and communication technology as well as advances in artificial intelligence enable a new generation of complex, AI-intense systems and applications. Such systems and applications promise exciting…

The main focus of the requirements engineering (RE) literature has been on the technical aspects related to the RE projects. Furthermore, research has mainly focused on the specific methods for collecting the requirements for an information…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-06-07 Risto Paavola , Petri Hallikainen

Human-centered Requirements Engineering (HC-RE) integrates user cognition, emotions, and social interactions into the RE process through contributions from disciplines such as psychology, cognitive science, design thinking, and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Imen Benzarti , Ikram Darif , Abderrahmane Leshob , Hafedh Mili , Darine Amayed

Requirements Engineering (RE) requires the collaboration of various roles in SE, such as requirements engineers, stakeholders and other developers, and it is thus a highly human dependent process in software engineering (SE). Identifying…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Dulaji Hidellaarachchi , John Grundy , Rashina Hoda , Kashumi Madampe

Quality requirements are critical for successful software engineering, with maintainability being a key internal quality. Despite significant attention in software metrics research, maintainability has attracted surprisingly little focus in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Markus Borg

This research aims to design and develop a new requirements prioritization approach for analyzing and prioritizing stakeholders requirements which are mentioned in the feedback for software products. This paper presents a PhD research…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Saurabh Malgaonkar , Sherlock A. Licorish , Bastin Tony Roy Savarimuthu

This document details the planning phase of a Systematic Mapping Study. Our goal is to identify and to understand the benefits that the software engineering community has reported on the application of the different reuse strategies in…

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

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

Requirements engineering is a key phase in the development process. Ensuring that requirements are consistent is essential so that they do not conflict and admit implementations. We consider the formal verification of rt-consistency, which…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Thierry Jéron , Nicolas Markey , David Mentré , Reiya Noguchi , Ocan Sankur

In this position paper, we elaborate on the possibilities and needs to integrate Design Thinking into Requirements Engineering. We draw from our research and project experiences to compare what is understood as Design Thinking and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Jennifer Hehn , Daniel Mendez , Falk Uebernickel , Walter Brenner , Manfred Broy

Context: Success with agile methods in the small scale has led to an increasing adoption also in large development undertakings and organizations. Recent years have also seen an increasing amount of primary research on the topic, as well as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Oemer Uludag , Pascal Philipp , Abheeshta Putta , Maria Paasivaara , Casper Lassenius , Florian Matthes

There is a growing demand for software engineering education (SEE) for professionals because of the increasing demand, active evolution of the technological landscape, and changes in the skills required by the practice. Integrating…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Oleksandr Kosenkov , Konstantin Blaschke , Tony Gorschek , Michael Unterkalmsteiner , Oleksandr Adamov , Davide Fucci