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Context & motivation: Despite significant advances in requirements engineering (RE) research and practice, software developing organisations still struggle to create requirements documentation in sufficient quality and in a repeatable way. Question/problem: The notion of good-enough quality is domain and project specific. Software developing organisations need concepts that i) allow adopting a suitable set of RE methods for their domain and projects and ii) allow improving these methods continuously. Principal ideas/results: Automatic analysis of requirements documentation can support a process of organisational learning. Such approaches help improve requirements documents, but can also start a discussion about its desired quality. Contribution: We present a learning model based on heuristic critiques. The paper shows how this concept can support learning on both the organisational and individual levels.
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Knauss, E., Schneider, K. (2012). Supporting Learning Organisations in Writing Better Requirements Documents Based on Heuristic Critiques. In: Regnell, B., Damian, D. (eds) Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality. REFSQ 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7195. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28714-5_14
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