How do Practitioners Perceive the Relevance of Requirements Engineering Research? An Ongoing Study
Paper in proceedings, 2017
The relevance of Requirements Engineering (RE) research to practitioners is a prerequisite for problem-driven research in the area and key for a long-term dissemination of research results to everyday practice. To understand better how industry practitioners perceive the practical relevance of RE research, we have initiated the RE-Pract project, an international collaboration conducting an empirical study. This project opts for a replication of previous work done in two different domains and relies on survey research. To this end, we have designed a survey to be sent to several hundred industry practitioners at various companies around the world and ask them to rate their perceived practical relevance of the research described in a sample of 418 RE papers published between 2010 and 2015 at the RE, ICSE, FSE, ESEC/FSE, ESEM and REFSQ conferences. In this paper, we summarize our research protocol and present the current status of our study and the planned future steps.
Empirical Study
Survey
Online Questionnaire
Requirements Engineering
Author
Xavier Franch
Polytechnic University of Catalonia
Daniel Mendez Fernandez
Technical University of Munich
Marc Oriol
Polytechnic University of Catalonia
Andreas Vogelsang
Technische Universität Berlin
Rogardt Heldal
Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Software Engineering (Chalmers)
Eric Knauss
University of Gothenburg
Guilherme Horta Travassos
National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq)
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Jeffrey C. Carver
University of Alabama
Oscar Dieste
Technical University of Madrid
Thomas Zimmermann
Microsoft Research
2017 IEEE 25TH INTERNATIONAL REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING CONFERENCE (RE)
2332-6441 (ISSN)
382-387
25th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE)
Lisbon, Portugal,
Lisbon, Portugal,
Subject Categories
Production Engineering, Human Work Science and Ergonomics
Other Mechanical Engineering
Software Engineering
DOI
10.1109/RE.2017.17