How Requirements Engineering is Performed in Small Businesses?

Abstract

Despite that small businesses dominate the land-scape of the software industry firms, they have been understudied by the requirements engineering community. So, motivated by understanding how RE is conducted by small business firms, we extracted and analyzed sample data belonging to seven small businesses from a recent online survey we conducted in 2020 on the RE state of practice. In this paper, we present a panoramic overview of the findings from the analyzed sample.