Requirements Engineering最新文献

Including business strategy in model-driven methods: an experiment. 将商业战略纳入模型驱动方法：一项实验。

IF 2.8 3区计算机科学

Requirements Engineering Pub Date : 2023-03-10 DOI: 10.1007/s00766-023-00400-3

Rene Noel, Jose Ignacio Panach, Oscar Pastor

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引用次数: 1

Philanthropic conference-based requirements engineering in time of pandemic and beyond. 基于慈善会议的需求工程在大流行时期和以后。

IF 2.8 3区计算机科学

Requirements Engineering Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1007/s00766-022-00386-4

Meira Levy, Irit Hadar, Jennifer Horkoff, Jane Huffman Hayes, Barbara Paech, Alex Dekhtyar, Gunter Mussbacher, Elda Paja, Tong Li, Seok-Won Lee, Dongfeng Fang

{"title":"Philanthropic conference-based requirements engineering in time of pandemic and beyond.","authors":"Meira Levy, Irit Hadar, Jennifer Horkoff, Jane Huffman Hayes, Barbara Paech, Alex Dekhtyar, Gunter Mussbacher, Elda Paja, Tong Li, Seok-Won Lee, Dongfeng Fang","doi":"10.1007/s00766-022-00386-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00766-022-00386-4","url":null,"abstract":"As software engineering (SE) practitioners, we can help society by using our communities of experts to address a software need of a socially conscious organization. Doing so can benefit society in the locale of a SE conference and provide access to international experts for local organizations. Furthermore, established SE researchers as well as practitioners and students have the opportunity for a unique learning experience. While the SE community has already realized the importance of addressing human values and promoting social good objectives in software development, we are unaware of previous attempts to leverage SE conferences for this activity. Conferences present an opportunity to enjoy the assembly of SE practitioners, researchers, and students for the purpose of a philanthropic endeavor. Over the past four years of running a \"Requirements Engineering for Social Good\" event called RE Cares, co-located with the International Conference on Requirements Engineering, we worked with the stakeholders local to the conference venue. We selected stakeholders who would not necessarily have ready access to requirements engineering, software design, and development expertise otherwise, to build software targeting \"good causes.\" In the last two years, this event was altered to adapt to the constraints induced by COVID-19, moving to a hybrid mode and changing many of its practices accordingly. This paper summarizes and generalizes our experiences, discussing our lessons learned in the context of the pandemic and beyond and providing a framework for conducting similar social contribution in any SE conferences in general.","PeriodicalId":20912,"journal":{"name":"Requirements Engineering","volume":"28 2","pages":"213-227"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9463674/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10298063","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Aligning requirements and testing through metamodeling and patterns: design and evaluation. 通过元建模和模式调整需求和测试:设计和评估。

IF 2.8 3区计算机科学

Requirements Engineering Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1007/s00766-022-00377-5

Taciana Novo Kudo, Renato de Freitas Bulcão-Neto, Valdemar Vicente Graciano Neto, Auri Marcelo Rizzo Vincenzi

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引用次数: 2

Specifying requirements for collection and analysis of online user feedback. 规定收集和分析在线用户反馈的要求。

IF 2.8 3区计算机科学

Requirements Engineering Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1007/s00766-022-00387-3

M Astegher, P Busetta, A Gabbasov, M Pedrotti, A Perini, A Susi

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引用次数: 2

Editorial. 社论。

IF 2.8 3区计算机科学

Requirements Engineering Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1007/s00766-023-00398-8

Fabiano Dalpiaz, Paola Spoletini

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A systematic literature review of requirements engineering education. 需求工程教育的系统文献综述。

IF 2.8 3区计算机科学

Requirements Engineering Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1007/s00766-022-00381-9

Marian Daun, Alicia M Grubb, Viktoria Stenkova, Bastian Tenbergen

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