Requirements Engineering at Age 20: Looking Back, Looking Ahead

Abstract

The panelists will look back at the progress in requirements engineering since its emergence as a fullfledged sub-discipline of software engineering in 1976.. This was primarily marked by a set of special sessions on software requirements engineering at ICSE 2 in October, 1976, followed by the publication of some of the key ICSE 2 papers in the January 1977 IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. The panelists will then look forward to address the likely evolution of requirements engineering over the next 20 years.