12 papers
Experience Report on the Adaptable Integration of Requirements Engineering Courses into Curricula for Professionals
Oleksandr Kosenkov, Konstantin Blaschke, Tony Gorschek +3
There is a growing demand for software engineering education (SEE) for professionals because of the increasing demand, active evolution of the technological landscape, and changes…
Privacy by Design: Aligning GDPR and Software Engineering Specifications with a Requirements Engineering Approach
Oleksandr Kosenkov, Ehsan Zabardast, Davide Fucci +2
Context: Consistent requirements and system specifications are essential for the compliance of software systems towards the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Both artefact…
Multi-Label Requirements Classification with Large Taxonomies
Waleed Abdeen, Michael Unterkalmsteiner, Krzysztof Wnuk +3
Classification aids software development activities by organizing requirements in classes for easier access and retrieval. The majority of requirements classification research has,…
Measuring the Fitness-for-Purpose of Requirements: An initial Model of Activities and Attributes
Julian Frattini, Jannik Fischbach, Davide Fucci +2
Requirements engineering aims to fulfill a purpose, i.e., inform subsequent software development activities about stakeholders' needs and constraints that must be met by the system…
Applying Bayesian Data Analysis for Causal Inference about Requirements Quality: A Controlled Experiment
Julian Frattini, Davide Fucci, Richard Torkar +4
It is commonly accepted that the quality of requirements specifications impacts subsequent software engineering activities. However, we still lack empirical evidence to support org…
A Live Extensible Ontology of Quality Factors for Textual Requirements
Julian Frattini, Lloyd Montgomery, Jannik Fischbach +3
Quality factors like passive voice or sentence length are commonly used in research and practice to evaluate the quality of natural language requirements since they indicate defect…