Status Quo in Requirements Engineering: A Theory and a Global Family of Surveys
Paper in proceeding, 2020

While researchers have been investigating the Requirements Engineering (RE) discipline with a plethora of empirical studies, attempts to systematically derive an empirical theory in context of the RE discipline have just recently been started. We aim at providing an empirical and externally valid foundation for a theory of RE practice, which helps software engineers establish effective and efficient RE processes in a problem-driven manner. We designed a survey instrument and an engineer-focused theory that has been conducted in 10 countries. We have a theory in the form of a set of propositions inferred from our experiences and available studies, as well as the results from our pilot study in Germany. We evaluate the propositions with bootstrapped confidence intervals and derive potential explanations for the propositions.

Requirements Engineering

Theory

Survey

Author

Stefan Wagner

University of Stuttgart

D. M. Fernandez

Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, BTH

Michael Felderer

University of Innsbruck

Antonio Vetrò

Polytechnic University of Turin

Marcos Kalinowski

Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro

Roel Wieringa

University of Twente

Dietmar Pfahl

University of Tartu

Tayana Conte

Federal University of Amazonas

Marie Therese Christiansson

Karlstad University

Desmond Greer

Queen's University Belfast

Casper Lassenius

Aalto University

Tomi Männistö

University of Helsinki

Maleknaz Nayebi

York University

M. Oivo

University of Oulu

Birgit Penzenstadler

Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Software Engineering (Chalmers)

Rafael Prikladnicki

Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul

Guenther Ruhe

University of Calgary

André Schekelmann

Hochschule Niederrhein

Sagar Sen

Simula

Rodrigo Spínola

University of El Salvador

Ahmed Tuzcu

ZEB/Rolfes.Schierenbeck.Associates GmbH

Jose Luis de la Vara

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Dietmar Winkler

Vienna University of Technology

Lecture Notes in Informatics

1617-5468 (ISSN)

Vol. P-310 115-116
9783885797043 (ISBN)

Fachtagung des GI-Fachbereichs Softwaretechnik, Software Engineering 2021 - Conference of the GI Software Engineering Section, SE 2021
Braunschweig, Germany,

Subject Categories

Other Mechanical Engineering

Software Engineering

Information Science

DOI

10.18420/SE2021_45

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