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Background: Research software is crucial for enabling research discoveries and supporting data analysis, simulation, and interpretation across domains. However, evolving requirements, complex inputs, and legacy dependencies hinder the…

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Systems that use Machine Learning (ML) have become commonplace for companies that want to improve their products and processes. Literature suggests that Requirements Engineering (RE) can help address many problems when engineering…

Regulatory compliance is increasingly being addressed in the practice of requirements engineering as a main stream concern. This paper points out a gap in the theoretical foundations of regulatory compliance, and presents a theory that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2010-02-22 Ivan Jureta , Alberto Siena , John Mylopoulos , Anna Perini , Angelo Susi

Context: Regulatory acts are a challenging source when eliciting, interpreting, and analyzing requirements. Requirements engineers often need to involve legal experts who, however, may often not be available. This raises the need for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Oleksandr Kosenkov , Michael Unterkalmsteiner , Jannik Fischbach , Daniel Mendez , Davide Fucci , Tony Gorschek

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…

Software architecture is the foundation of a system's ability to achieve various quality attributes, including software performance. However, there lacks comprehensive and in-depth understanding of why and how software architecture and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Yutong Zhao , Lu Xiao , Chenhao Wei , Rick Kazman , Ye Yang

[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

Context: With the rising complexity and scale of software systems, there is an ever-increasing demand for sophisticated and cost-effective software testing. To meet such a demand, there is a need for a highly-skilled software testing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Vahid Garousi , Austen Rainer , Per Lauvås , Andrea Arcuri

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…

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As software has become more essential to research across disciplines, and as the recognition of this fact has grown, the importance of professionalizing the development and maintenance of this software has also increased. The community of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Ian A. Cosden , Kenton McHenry , Daniel S. Katz

Robots are being applied in a vast range of fields, leading researchers and practitioners to write tasks more complex than in the past. The robot software complexity increases the difficulty of engineering the robot's software components…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Marcela G. dos Santos , Fabio Petrillo

Algorithmic management (AM)'s impact on worker well-being has led to calls for regulation. However, little is known about the effectiveness and challenges in real-world AM regulation across the regulatory process -- rule operationalization,…

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Sustainability is an increasingly-studied topic in software engineering in general, and in software architecture in particular. There are already a number of secondary studies addressing sustainability in software engineering, but no such…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Vasilios Andrikopoulos , Rares-Dorian Boza , Carlos Perales , Patricia Lago

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

Context: Continuous Software Engineering is increasingly adopted in highly regulated domains, raising the need for continuous compliance. Adherence to especially security regulations -- a major concern in highly regulated domains -- renders…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Florian Angermeir , Jannik Fischbach , Fabiola Moyón , Daniel Mendez

Requirements Engineering (RE) focuses on eliciting, modelling, and analyzing the requirements and environment of a system-to-be in order to design its specification. The design of the specification, usually called the Requirements Problem…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-07-23 Ivan Jureta

Background: Requirement engineering is often considered a critical activity in system development projects. The increasing complexity of software, as well as number and heterogeneity of stakeholders, motivate the development of methods and…

The application of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has significantly affected privacy requirements elicitation, modelling, and verification in Software Engineering (SE). One of the affected areas is requirements visualisation…

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Organizations need to manage numerous business processes for delivering their services and products to customers. One important consideration thereby lies in the adherence to regulations such as laws, guidelines, or industry standards. In…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Finn Klessascheck , Luise Pufahl

Context: Corporate training plays a strategic role in the continuous development of professionals in the software engineering industry. However, there is a lack of systematized understanding of how training initiatives are designed,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Breno Alves de Andrade , Rodrigo Siqueira , Lidiane Gomes , Antonio Oliveira , Danilo Monteiro Ribeiro