Field Study on Requirements Engineering Artefacts and Patterns

Requirements Engineering (RE) constitutes a critical discipline within Software Engineering. The quality of requirements is the backbone of project execution since the following phases strongly rely on it. Nowadays, industries are more then ever facing the problem that the RE process is highly volatile because it depends on the customer’s capabilities, on the used process models, and on the type of specifications developed. This paper describes a study on the RE process in a specific company in the application domain of business information systems. While existing surveys often analyse the general impact of RE processes on project success, we investigate and discuss different influences that arose in 12 real-life projects and the effects of these influences onto produced RE artefacts. We infer different artefact patterns and probable project execution strategies that cause these patterns. The strategies are performed in order to tackle the different project influences. The identification enables us to get a more detailed understanding of RE in practice for the future elaboration of tailoring approaches that customise RE efforts to volatile project environments.

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Daniel Méndez Fernández

Stefan Wagner

Klaus Lochmann

Andrea Baumann

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Publication date: April 2010

Publication date (Print): April 2010

Pages: 1-10

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[0001]Institut für Informatik

Technische Universität München

Boltzmannstr. 3, 85748 Garching, Germany

[0002]Fakultät für Elektrotechnik und Technische Informatik

Universität der Bundeswehr München

Werner-Heisenberg-Weg 39, 85577 Munich, Germany

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EASE2010.1

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Copyright statement: © Daniel Méndez Fernández et al. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. 14th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE), Keele University, UK

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Conference name: 14th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE)

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Conference location: Keele University, UK

Conference date: 12 - 13 April 2010

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering

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Field Study on Requirements Engineering Artefacts and Patterns

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