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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…
Preventing Incomplete/Hidden Requirements: Reflections on Survey Data from Austria and Brazil
M. Kalinowski, M. Felderer, T. Conte +5
Many software projects fail due to problems in requirements engineering (RE). The goal of this paper is analyzing a specific and relevant RE problem in detail: incomplete/hidden re…
A Field Study on the Elicitation and Classification of Defects for Defect Models
D. Holling, D. Méndez Fernández, A. Pretschner
Defect models capture faults and methods to provoke failures. To integrate such defect models into existing quality assurance processes, we developed a defect model lifecycle frame…
A Case Study on Artefact-based RE Improvement in Practice
D. Méndez Ferández, S. Wagner
Most requirements engineering (RE) process improvement approaches are solution-driven and activity-based. They focus on the assessment of the RE of a company against an external no…
Field study on requirements engineering: Investigation of artefacts, project parameters, and execution strategies
D. Méndez Fernández, S. Wagner, K. Lochmann +2
Requirements Engineering (RE) is a critical discipline mostly driven by uncertainty, since it is influenced by the customer domain or by the development process model used. We aim…
Naming the Pain in Requirements Engineering: A Design for a Global Family of Surveys and First Results from Germany
D. Méndez Fernández, S. Wagner
For many years, we have observed industry struggling in defining a high quality requirements engineering (RE) and researchers trying to understand industrial expectations and probl…
Naming the Pain in Requirements Engineering: Contemporary Problems, Causes, and Effects in Practice
D. Méndez Fernández, S. Wagner, M. Kalinowski +20
Requirements Engineering (RE) has received much attention in research and practice due to its importance to software project success. Its interdisciplinary nature, the dependency t…
Are "Non-functional" Requirements really Non-functional?
J. Eckhardt, A. Vogelsang, D. Méndez Fernández
Non-functional requirements (NFRs) are commonly distinguished from functional requirements by differentiating how the system shall do something in contrast to what the system shall…
Rapid quality assurance with Requirements Smells
H. Femmer, D. Méndez Fernández, S. Wagner +1
Bad requirements quality can cause expensive consequences during the software development lifecycle, especially if iterations are long and feedback comes late. %-- the faster a pro…
Case Studies in Industry: What We Have Learnt
D. Méndez Fernández, S. Wagner
Case study research has become an important research methodology for exploring phenomena in their natural contexts. Case studies have earned a distinct role in the empirical analys…
On the Distinction of Functional and Quality Requirements in Practice
J. Eckhardt, A. Vogelsang, D. Méndez Fernández
Requirements are often divided into functional requirements (FRs) and quality requirements (QRs). However, we still have little knowledge about to which extent this distinction mak…
Naming the Pain in Requirements Engineering: Design of a Global Family of Surveys and First Results from Germany
Daniel Méndez Fernández, Stefan Wagner
Context: For many years, we have observed industry struggling in defining a high quality requirements engineering (RE) and researchers trying to understand industrial expectations…