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Software security is of utmost importance for most software systems. Developers must systematically select, plan, design, implement, and especially, maintain and evolve security features -- functionalities to mitigate attacks or protect…

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[Context and Motivation]: The quality of requirements specifications impacts subsequent, dependent software engineering activities. Requirements quality defects like ambiguous statements can result in incomplete or wrong features and even…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Julian Frattini

Requirements are key artefacts to describe the intended purpose of a software system. The quality of requirements is crucial for deciding what to do next, impacting the development process's effectiveness and efficiency. However, we know…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Emil Lind , Javier Gonzalez-Huerta , Emil Alégroth

Changes, they use to say, are the only constant in life. Everything changes rapidly around us, and more and more key to survival is the ability to rapidly adapt to changes. This consideration applies to many aspects of our lives. Strangely…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-04-16 Vincenzo De Florio , Chris Blondia

Requirements engineering (RE) is considerably different in agile development than in more traditional development processes. Yet, there is little empirical knowledge on the state of the practice and contemporary problems in agile RE. As…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Stefan Wagner , Daniel Méndez Fernández , Michael Felderer , Marcos Kalinowski

Government development projects vary significantly from private sector initiatives in scope, stakeholder complexity, and regulatory requirements. There is a lack of empirical studies focusing on requirements engineering (RE) activities…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Anqi Ren , Lin Liu , Yi Wang , Xiao Liu , Hailong Wang , Kaijia Xu , Xishuo Zhang , Chetan Arora

Requirement Engineering (RE) is the foundation of successful software development. In RE, the goal is to ensure that implemented systems satisfy stakeholder needs through rigorous requirements elicitation, validation, and evaluation…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Mateen Ahmed Abbasi , Petri Ihantola , Tommi Mikkonen , Niko Mäkitalo

Defects in requirements specifications can have severe consequences during the software development lifecycle. Some of them may result in poor product quality and/or time and budget overruns due to incorrect or missing quality…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Hugo Villamizar , Marcos Kalinowski , Alessandro Garcia , Daniel Mendez Fernández

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

Requirement prioritization is recognized as an important decision-making activity in requirements engineering and software development. Requirement prioritization is applied to determine which requirements should be implemented and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Richard Berntsson Svensson , Richard Torkar

Context: Successfully addressing stakeholder concerns that are related to software system development and operation is crucial to achieving development goals. The importance of using a systematic approach to addressing these concerns…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Sandun Dasanayake , Jouni Markkula , Markku Oivo

Requirements Engineering has recently been greatly influenced by the way how firms use Open Source Software (OSS) and Software Ecosystems (SECOs) as a part of their product development and business models. This is further emphasized by the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Johan Linåker , Krzysztof Wnuk

Today, software industry has a rapid growth. In order to resist the competition increased by this growth, software projects need to be developed with higher quality and especially user friendly. Therefore, the importance of human-computer…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-02-08 M. Hanefi Calp , M. Ali Akcayol

The need for change in project requirements is necessary for every organization due to change in technology,change in government policy,and change of customer or stakeholders requirements.Requirement Change Management RCM is not an easy…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-05-04 Ahmed Mateen , Hina Amir

[Context and motivation] When developing software, coordination between different organizational units is essential in order to develop a good quality product, on time and within budget. Particularly, the synchronization between…

A Software Engineering project depends significantly on team performance, as does any activity that involves human interaction. In the last years, the traditional perspective on software development is changing and agile methods have…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-08-27 M. Rizwan Jameel Qureshi , Sohayp Abo Alshamat , Fatima Sabir

Pushed by market forces, software development has become fast-paced. As a consequence, modern development projects are assembled from 3rd-party components. Security & privacy assurance techniques once designed for large, controlled updates…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Ivan Pashchenko , Riccardo Scandariato , Antonino Sabetta , Fabio Massacci

This paper presents a framework that guides the requirements engineer in the implementation and execution of an effective requirements generation process. We achieve this goal by providing a well-defined requirements engineering model and a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Lester Lobo , James D. Arthur

Software has the potential to be a key driver in fostering sustainability. Despite this potential, it is not clear if and how the software industry integrates consideration of sustainability into its common software development processes.…

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