A study plan: open innovation based on internet data mining in software engineering

In the past decade, open innovation (OI) has become a major element of companies’ innovation processes in almost all industries. Even though, there is still room for research on the potential of OI in Software Engineering (SE), especially, finding out how OI would be used to extract users’ software requirements automatically from Internet resources. This paper describes an initial research plan that aims at developing an empirically validated methodology for automatic extraction of software requirements from Internet resources. The research plan describes the architecture of the study, major steps, and expected results.