Integrating Requirements Engineering with Software Development - A Research Abstract

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Abstract

Software development companies operating in market-driven domains need to deliver new and appealing software products at an increasing rate in order to stay competitive. This requires fast and efficient development of software for which the requirements are based on ever-changing market demands. Agile development claims to achieve increased development efficiency by performing the requirements engineering (RE) activities concurrently with design, planning and testing in an integrated fashion. However, coordination and communication is often reported as a challenge both for agile and for traditional RE practices. Increased insight into the factors affected by integrating RE may allow tailoring the degree of RE integration to suit specific project context, e.g. size, rate of requirements change, domain etc., and thereby support increased efficiency in software development. The aim of this research is to develop methods for assessing the level of RE integration and techniques for improving the integration of requirements. The research is performed in collaboration with industry and the developed methods and techniques will be empirically evaluated in an industrial setting.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationICB Research Reports
EditorsRichard Berntsson Svensson, Daniel Berry, Maya Daneva, Jörg Dörr, Samuel A. Fricker, Andrea Herrmann, Georg Herzwurm, Marjo Kauppinen, Hazim H Madhavji, Martin Mahaux, Barbara Paech, Birgit Penzenstadler, Wolfram Pietsch, Camille Salinesi, Kurt Schneider, Norbert Seyff, Inge van de Weerd
PublisherInst. f Computer Science and Business Inform. Systems, University of Duisburg-Essen
Number of pages8
Publication statusPublished - 2012
EventInternational Working Conference Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality, 2012 - Essen, Germany
Duration: 2012 Mar 192012 Mar 22
Conference number: 18

Publication series

Name
Number46
ISSN (Print)1860-2770

Conference

ConferenceInternational Working Conference Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality, 2012
Abbreviated titleREFSQ 2012
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityEssen
Period2012/03/192012/03/22

Subject classification (UKÄ)

  • Computer Science

Free keywords

  • integrated requirements engineering
  • software development
  • agile development
  • process assessment
  • alignment
  • testing

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