{"title":"Requirements Engineering as Science in the Small","authors":"Munindar P. Singh, A. Chopra","doi":"10.1109/ICSE-NIER.2019.00020","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This paper identifies similarities between requirements engineering (RE) and the scientific method. It argues that RE is concerned with the development of models of small universes and thus relates to natural science despite RE having a prescriptive rather than a descriptive nature. An explicitly philosophical stance sheds light on RE processes and brings up criteria for judging RE processes.","PeriodicalId":180082,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE/ACM 41st International Conference on Software Engineering: New Ideas and Emerging Results (ICSE-NIER)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2019 IEEE/ACM 41st International Conference on Software Engineering: New Ideas and Emerging Results (ICSE-NIER)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSE-NIER.2019.00020","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This paper identifies similarities between requirements engineering (RE) and the scientific method. It argues that RE is concerned with the development of models of small universes and thus relates to natural science despite RE having a prescriptive rather than a descriptive nature. An explicitly philosophical stance sheds light on RE processes and brings up criteria for judging RE processes.