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How to Integrate Security Compliance Requirements with Agile Software Engineering at Scale?
Fabiola Moyón, Daniel Méndez Fernández, Kristian Beckers +1
Integrating security into agile software development is an open issue for research and practice. Especially in strongly regulated industries, complexity increases not only when sca…
Awareness of Secure Coding Guidelines in the Industry -- A first data analysis
Tiago Espinha Gasiba, Ulrike Lechner, Maria Pinto-Albuquerque +1
Software needs to be secure, in particular, when deployed to critical infrastructures. Secure coding guidelines capture practices in industrial software engineering to ensure the s…
Views on Quality Requirements in Academia and Practice: Commonalities, Differences, and Context-Dependent Grey Areas
Andreas Vogelsang, Jonas Eckhardt, Daniel Mendez +1
Context: Quality requirements (QRs) are a topic of constant discussions both in industry and academia. Debates entwine around the definition of quality requirements, the way how to…
Generating Requirements Out of Thin Air: Towards Automated Feature Identification for New Apps
Tahira Iqbal, Norbert Seyff, Daniel Mendez Fernández
App store mining has proven to be a promising technique for requirements elicitation as companies can gain valuable knowledge to maintain and evolve existing apps. However, despite…
Challenges in Survey Research
Stefan Wagner, Daniel Méndez Fernández, Michael Felderer +2
While being an important and often used research method, survey research has been less often discussed on a methodological level in empirical software engineering than other types…
An Approach for Reviewing Security-Related Aspects in Agile Requirements Specifications of Web Applications
H. Villamizar, A. A. Neto, M. Kalinowski +2
Defects in requirements specifications can have severe consequences during the software development lifecycle. Some of them result in overall project failure due to incorrect or mi…
Open Science in Software Engineering
Daniel Méndez Fernández, Daniel Graziotin, Stefan Wagner +1
Open science describes the movement of making any research artefact available to the public and includes, but is not limited to, open access, open data, and open source. While open…
Do We Preach What We Practice? Investigating the Practical Relevance of Requirements Engineering Syllabi - The IREB Case
Daniel Méndez Fernández, Xavier Franch, Norbert Seyff +7
Nowadays, there exist a plethora of different educational syllabi for Requirements Engineering (RE), all aiming at incorporating practically relevant educational units (EUs). Many…
A Systematic Mapping Study on Security in Agile Requirements Engineering
H. Villamizar, M. Kalinowski, M. Viana +1
[Background] The rapidly changing business environments in which many companies operate is challenging traditional Requirements Engineering (RE) approaches. This gave rise to agile…
Artefacts in Software Engineering: A Fundamental Positioning
D. Méndez Fernández, W. Böhm, A. Vogelsang +4
Artefacts play a vital role in software and systems development processes. Other terms like documents, deliverables, or work products are widely used in software development commun…
Empirical Software Engineering: From Discipline to Interdiscipline
Daniel Méndez Fernández, Jan-Hendrik Passoth
Empirical software engineering has received much attention in recent years and coined the shift from a more design-science-driven engineering discipline to an insight-oriented, and…
Supporting Requirements Engineering Research that Industry Needs: The Naming the Pain in Requirements Engineering Initiative
Daniel Méndez Fernández
In light of the 40th jubilee of Requirements Engineering (RE), roughly 40 experts met in Switzerland to discuss where our discipline stands today. As of today, the common view is,…
On Evidence-based Risk Management in Requirements Engineering
Daniel Méndez Fernández, Michaela Tießler, Marcos Kalinowski +2
Background: The sensitivity of Requirements Engineering (RE) to the context makes it difficult to efficiently control problems therein, thus, hampering an effective risk management…
How do Practitioners Perceive the Relevance of Requirements Engineering Research? An Ongoing Study
X. Franch, D. Méndez Fernández, M. Oriol +7
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…
A Community's Perspective on the Status and Future of Peer Review in Software Engineering
Lutz Prechelt, Daniel Graziotin, Daniel Méndez Fernández
Context: Pre-publication peer review of scientific articles is considered a key element of the research process in software engineering, yet it is often perceived as not to work fu…
Requirements Engineering Practice and Problems in Agile Projects: Results from an International Survey
Stefan Wagner, Daniel Méndez Fernández, Michael Felderer +1
Requirements engineering (RE) is considerably different in agile development than in more traditional development processes. Yet, there is little empirical knowledge on the state o…
Does Quality of Requirements Specifications matter? Combined Results of Two Empirical Studies
Jakob Mund, Henning Femmer, Daniel Méndez Fernández +1
Background: Requirements Engineering is crucial for project success, and to this end, many measures for quality assurance of the software requirements specification (SRS) have been…
Lessons Learnt in Conducting Survey Research
Marco Torchiano, Daniel Méndez Fernández, Guilherme Horta Travassos +1
Context: Surveys constitute an valuable tool to capture a large-scale snapshot of the state of the practice. Apparently trivial to adopt, surveys hide, however, several pitfalls th…
On the Use of Variability Operations in the V-Modell XT Software Process Line
Marco Kuhrmann, Daniel Méndez Fernández, Thomas Ternité
Software process lines provide a systematic approach to develop and manage software processes. It defines a reference process containing general process assets, whereas a well-defi…
From Pragmatic to Systematic Software Process Improvement: An Evaluated Approach
Marco Kuhrmann, Daniel Méndez Fernández
Software processes improvement (SPI) is a challenging task, as many different stakeholders, project settings, and contexts and goals need to be considered. SPI projects are often o…
Supporting Defect Causal Analysis in Practice with Cross-Company Data on Causes of Requirements Engineering Problems
Marcos Kalinowski, Pablo Curty, Aline Paes +5
[Context] Defect Causal Analysis (DCA) represents an efficient practice to improve software processes. While knowledge on cause-effect relations is helpful to support DCA, collecti…
Where do we stand in requirements engineering improvement today? First results from a mapping study
Daniel Méndez Fernández, Saahil Ognawala, Stefan Wagner +1
Context: Requirements engineering process improvement (REPI) approaches have gained much attention in research and practice. Goal: So far, there is no comprehensive view on the res…
On the Pragmatic Design of Literature Studies in Software Engineering: An Experience-based Guideline
M. Kuhrmann, D. Méndez Fernández, M. Daneva
Systematic literature studies have received much attention in empirical software engineering in recent years. They have become a powerful tool to collect and structure reported kno…
Analysing Text in Software Projects
S. Wagner, D. Méndez Fernández
Most of the data produced in software projects is of textual nature: source code, specifications, or documentations. The advances in quantitative analysis methods drove a lot of da…