Requirements reviews revisited: Residual challenges and open research questions

2013 21st IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE) Pub Date : 2013-07-15 DOI:10.1109/RE.2013.6636725

Frank Salger

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It is widely accepted that early reviews on requirements specifications (RS) are an effective and efficient quality assurance technique. So why are they still not applied all over the software industry? In this paper we pinpoint that this is due to five major challenges: 1) Software requirements are based on flawed `upstream' requirements and reviews on RS are thus in vain. 2) The impact of sociological issues related to reviews is underestimated. 3) Important quality aspects of RS escape reviews. 4) The goal of applying reviews is not made clear and different review approaches are mixed. 5) Incremental software development poses specific challenges to applying reviews on RS. In this paper we argue that in order to solve these five challenges research on reviews must take a more holistic approach, stretching to pre-project phases and incorporating various other disciplines in order to add more value for the software industry. The paper also offers preliminary solutions to the discussed challenges and sketches open research questions of high relevance for the software industry.

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需求回顾:剩余的挑战和开放的研究问题

需求说明(RS)的早期评审是一种有效且高效的质量保证技术，这一点已被广泛接受。那么，为什么它们仍然没有在整个软件行业得到应用呢?在本文中，我们指出这是由于五个主要的挑战:1)软件需求是基于有缺陷的“上游”需求，因此对RS的审查是徒劳的。2)与评论相关的社会学问题的影响被低估。3) RS逃生评审的重要质量方面。4)申请评审的目标不明确，不同的评审方式混杂。5)增量软件开发对在RS上应用评审提出了具体的挑战。在本文中，我们认为为了解决这五个挑战，对评审的研究必须采取更全面的方法，延伸到项目前阶段，并结合各种其他学科，以便为软件行业增加更多的价值。本文还为讨论的挑战提供了初步解决方案，并概述了与软件行业高度相关的开放性研究问题。

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