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Building shared understanding of requirements is key to ensuring downstream software activities are efficient and effective. However, in continuous software engineering (CSE) some lack of shared understanding is an expected, and essential,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Colin Werner , Ze Shi Li , Neil Ernst , Daniela Damian

Existing scientific literature highlights the importance of metrics in Agile Software Development (ASD). Still, empirical investigation into metrics in ASD is scarce, particularly in identifying the rationale and the operational challenges…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Prabhat Ram , Pilar Rodriguez , Markku Oivo

Requirements engineering plays a critical role in developing software systems. One of the most difficult tasks in this process is identifying functional requirements. A critical problem in many projects is missing requirements until late in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Sabah Al-Fedaghi

Research shows that many of the challenges currently encountered with agile development are related to requirements engineering. Based on design science research, this paper investigates critical challenges that arise in agile development…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Amna Pir Muhammad , Eric Knauss , Odzaya Batsaikhan , Nassiba El Haskouri , Yi-Chun Lin , Alessia Knauss

NonTechnical Debt (NTD) is a common challenge in agile software development, manifesting in four critical forms, Process Debt, Social Debt, People Debt, Organizational debt. NODLA project is a collaboration between Karlstad University and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Muhammad Ovais Ahmad , Tomas Gustavsson

Normative non-functional requirements specify constraints that a system must observe in order to avoid violations of social, legal, ethical, empathetic, and cultural norms. As these requirements are typically defined by non-technical system…

It is a conundrum that agile projects can succeed 'without requirements' when weak requirements engineering is a known cause for project failures. While Agile development projects often manage well without extensive requirements…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Elizabeth Bjarnason , Michael Unterkalmsteiner , Emelie Engström , Markus Borg

Requirement engineering (RE) is the first and the most important step in software production and development. The RE is aimed to specify software requirements. One of the tasks in RE is the categorization of software requirements as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Fatemeh Khayashi , Behnaz Jamasb , Reza Akbari , Pirooz Shamsinejadbabaki

The growing complexity of software systems and the influence of software-supported decisions in our society awoke the need for software that is transparent, accountable, and trustworthy. Explainability has been identified as a means to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-08-09 Larissa Chazette , Wasja Brunotte , Timo Speith

Classifying requirements into functional requirements (FR) and non-functional ones (NFR) is an important task in requirements engineering. However, automated classification of requirements written in natural language is not straightforward,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Zahra Shakeri Hossein Abad , Oliver Karras , Parisa Ghazi , Martin Glinz , Guenther Ruhe , Kurt Schneider

Software has always been considered as malleable. Changes to software requirements are inevitable during the development process. Despite many software engineering advances over several decades, requirements changes are a source of project…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Waqar Hussain , Didar Zowghi , Tony Clear , Stephen MacDonell , Kelly Blincoe

As software systems increasingly interact with humans in application domains such as transportation and healthcare, they raise concerns related to the social, legal, ethical, empathetic, and cultural (SLEEC) norms and values of their…

In practice, requirements specification remains a critical challenge. The knowledge necessary to generate a specification can often be fragmented across diverse sources (e.g., meeting minutes, emails, and high-level product descriptions),…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Liliana Pasquale , Azzurra Ragone , Emanuele Piemontese , Armin Amiri Darban

This paper discusses a model-based approach to validate software requirements in agile development processes by simulation and in particular automated testing. The use of models as central development artifact needs to be added to the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-09-24 Jewgenij Botaschanjan , Markus Pister , Bernhard Rumpe

Software industry is a fast-moving industry and to keep up with this pace the development process also needs to be fast and efficient and Agile software development (ASD) is the answer to this problem. Even though ASD has been in there for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Suddhasvatta Das , Kevin Gary

Context: Definition of Done (DoD) is one of the fundamental concepts of Scrum. It expresses a shared view of a Scrum Team on what makes an increment of their product complete. DoDs are often defined as checklists with items being…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Sylwia Kopczynska , Jakub Piechowiak , Miroslaw Ochodek , Jerzy Nawrocki

Software development comprises complex tasks which are performed by humans. It involves problem solving, domain understanding and communication skills as well as knowledge of a broad variety of technologies, architectures, and solution…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Christoph Matthies , Guenter Hesse

Despite the popularity of Agile software development, achieving consistent project success remains challenging. This systematic literature review identifies critical success factors (CSFs) in Agile projects by analyzing 53 primary studies.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Ridewaan Hanslo , Maureen Tanner

The most important deliverable of the requirements engineering process is the software requirements specification(SRS)document. Requirements documentation is important during the complete software development lifecycle to share the vision…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Nosheen Qamar , Nosheen Sabahat , Amir Mashmool , Amir Mosavi

As user demands evolve, effectively incorporating feature requests is crucial for maintaining software relevance and user satisfaction. Feature requests, typically expressed in natural language, often suffer from ambiguity or incomplete…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Pragyan KC , Rambod Ghandiparsi , Thomas Herron , John Heaps , Mitra Bokaei Hosseini