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The area of Traffic Management (TM) is characterized by uncertainty, complexity, and imprecision. The complexity of software systems in the TM domain which contributes to a more challenging Requirements Engineering (RE) job mainly stems…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-07-10 Mohammad Noaeen , Zahra Shakeri Hossein Abad , Behrouz Homayoun Far

Background: Poor communication of requirements between clients and suppliers contributes to project overruns,in both software and infrastructure projects. Existing literature offers limited insights into the communication challenges at this…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Waleed Abdeen , Krzysztof Wnuk , Michael Unterkalmsteiner , Alexandros Chirtoglou

Requirement Analysis is an important phase in software development which deals with understanding the customers requirements. It includes the collection of information from the customer, which is regarding the customers requirements and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-09-08 Abhishek Kotnala , R. Selvarani

The requirements elicited from stakeholders are typically informal, incomplete, ambiguous, and inconsistent. It is the task of Requirements Engineering to transform them into an eligible (formal, sufficiently complete, unambiguous,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-05-10 Feng-Lin Li , Alexander Borgida , Giancarlo Guizzardi , Jennifer Horkoff , Lin Liu , John Mylopoulos

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

Context: The use of standards is considered a vital part of any engineering discipline. So one could expect that standards play an important role in Requirements Engineering (RE) as well. However, little is known about the actual knowledge…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Xavier Franch , Martin Glinz , Daniel Mendez , Norbert Seyff

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

Background: Studies on developer productivity and well-being find that the perceptions of productivity in a software team can be a socio-technical problem. Intuitively, problems and challenges can be better handled by managing expectations…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Khalid Hasan , Partho Chakraborty , Rifat Shahriyar , Anindya Iqbal , Gias Uddin

In this paper we present a formal framework for analysis and optimisation of the requirements specifications of systems developed to apply in several countries. As different countries typically have different regulations/laws as well as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Maria Spichkova , Heinz Schmidt

Requirements Engineering (RE) has received much attention in research and practice due to its importance to software project success. Its interdisciplinary nature, the dependency to the customer, and its inherent uncertainty still render…

Legacy software systems typically include vital data for organizations that use them and should thus to be regularly maintained. Ideally, organizations should rely on Requirements Engineers to understand and manage changes of stakeholder…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Yen Dieu Pham , Lloyd Montgomery , Walid Maalej

This paper describes the authors point of view on reaching a stage at which it is necessary to understand customer organizations better to identify their problems and how to address them. To resolve this issue we need a mechanism to capture…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Rana Siadati , Paul Wernick , Vito Veneziano

[Context and motivation]: Understanding and interpreting regulatory norms and inferring software requirements from them is a critical step towards regulatory compliance, a matter of significant importance in various industrial sectors.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Parisa Elahidoost , Daniel Mendez , Michael Unterkalmsteiner , Jannik Fischbach , Christian Feiler , Jonathan Streit

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

[Background] The rapidly changing business environments in which many companies operate is challenging traditional Requirements Engineering (RE) approaches. This gave rise to agile approaches for RE. Security, at the same time, is an…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-06-06 H. Villamizar , M. Kalinowski , M. Viana , D. Méndez Fernández

The success or failure of a project is highly related to recognizing the right stakeholders and accurately finding and discovering their requirements. However, choosing the proper elicitation technique was always a considerable challenge…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Ali Fallahi , Amineh Amini , Azam Bastanfard , Hadi Saboohi

Although software managers are generally good at new project estimation, their experience of scheduling rework tends to be poor. Inconsistent or incorrect effort estimation can increase the risk that the completion time for a project will…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2010-07-30 Bee Bee Chua , June Verner

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…

Various stakeholders with different backgrounds are involved in Smart City projects. These stakeholders define the project goals, e.g., based on participative approaches, market research or innovation management processes. To realize these…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Carsten Wiecher , Philipp Tendyra , Carsten Wolff

Mobile application development is the most rapidly growing industry in the world. Nowadays, people totally depend on smart phones for performing daily routine tasks which results in tremendous rises in the expectation of human being from IT…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Ali Nawaz , Attique Ur Rehman , Wasi Haider Butt