P. Greenwood, R. Chitchyan, A. Rashid, J. Noppen, Franck Fleurey, Arnor Solberg
{"title":"Modelling adaptability and variability in requirements","authors":"P. Greenwood, R. Chitchyan, A. Rashid, J. Noppen, Franck Fleurey, Arnor Solberg","doi":"10.1109/RE.2011.6051667","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RE.2011.6051667","url":null,"abstract":"The requirements and design level identification and representation of dynamic variability for adaptive systems is a challenging task. This requires time and effort to identify and model the relevant elements as well as the need to consider the large number of potentially possible system configurations. Typically, each individual variability dimension needs to identified and modelled by enumerating each possible alternative. The full set of requirements needs to be reviewed to extract all potential variability dimensions. Moreover, each possible configuration of an adaptive system needs to be validated before use. In this demonstration, we present a tool suite that is able to manage dynamic variability in adaptive systems and tame such system complexity. This tool suite is able to automatically identify dynamic variability attributes such as variability dimensions, context, adaptation rules, and soft/hard goals from requirements documents. It also supports modelling of these artefacts as well as their run-time verification and validation.","PeriodicalId":385129,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 19th International Requirements Engineering Conference","volume":"87 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132317573","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Power and politics in requirements engineering: A proposed research agenda","authors":"Alastair Milne, N. Maiden","doi":"10.1109/RE.2011.6051646","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RE.2011.6051646","url":null,"abstract":"This vision paper considers the role of power and politics in requirements engineering (RE). It offers a working definition of both terms and reviews the existing literature both in RE and related disciplines. It argues that, given the increased complexity, uncertainty and organisational embeddedness faced by RE in practice, power and politics have become increasingly relevant factors, and that they have not as yet been given adequate consideration. Building upon recent relevant research, a research agenda is proposed that presents a methodological framework which examines power and politics through the structure of power relations and the process of decision-making. This framework will require validation through empirical research as a first step to developing models of power and politics that could be of practical use for RE.","PeriodicalId":385129,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 19th International Requirements Engineering Conference","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128791255","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Richard Berntsson-Svensson, T. Gorschek, B. Regnell, R. Torkar, Ali Shahrokni, R. Feldt, A. Aurum
{"title":"Prioritization of quality requirements: State of practice in eleven companies","authors":"Richard Berntsson-Svensson, T. Gorschek, B. Regnell, R. Torkar, Ali Shahrokni, R. Feldt, A. Aurum","doi":"10.1109/RE.2011.6051652","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RE.2011.6051652","url":null,"abstract":"Requirements prioritization is recognized as an important but challenging activity in software product development. For a product to be successful, it is crucial to find the right balance among competing quality requirements. Although literature offers many methods for requirements prioritization, the research on prioritization of quality requirements is limited. This study identifies how quality requirements are prioritized in practice at 11 successful companies developing software intensive systems. We found that ad-hoc prioritization and priority grouping of requirements are the dominant methods for prioritizing quality requirements. The results also show that it is common to use customer input as criteria for prioritization but absence of any criteria was also common. The results suggests that quality requirements by default have a lower priority than functional requirements, and that they only get attention in the prioritizing process if decision-makers are dedicated to invest specific time and resources on QR prioritization. The results of this study may help future research on quality requirements to focus investigations on industry-relevant issues.","PeriodicalId":385129,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 19th International Requirements Engineering Conference","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130629609","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ready-set-transfer! Technology transfer in the requirements engineering domain","authors":"J. Cleland-Huang, Mona Rahimi, Mehdi Mirakhorli","doi":"10.1109/RE.2015.7320461","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RE.2015.7320461","url":null,"abstract":"The primary goal of requirements engineering research is to propose, develop, and validate effective solutions for important practical problems. However practice has shown that successful projects often take from 20–25 years to reach the stage of full industry adoption, while many other projects fizzle out and never advance beyond the initial research phase. In this interactive panel, teams of researchers representing several different requirements engineering research areas, bring ideas for technology transfer to a panel of industrial and government practitioners. The teams proceed through a series of interactive presentations and receive feedback from panelists. Underlying the game-show genre of the panel is the more serious goal to foster conversation between practitioners and researchers in order to improve the effectiveness of technology transfer in the requirements engineering community.","PeriodicalId":385129,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 19th International Requirements Engineering Conference","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133111210","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}