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-310 115-1169783885797043 (ISBN)
Fachtagung des GI-Fachbereichs Softwaretechnik, Software Engineering 2021 - Conference of the GI Software Engineering Section, SE 2021
Braunschweig, Germany,
Braunschweig, Germany,
Subject Categories
Other Mechanical Engineering
Software Engineering
Information Science
DOI
10.18420/SE2021_45