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Requirements Engineering Education: A Systematic Literature Review

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Requirements engineering is an essential activity of software development lifecycle (SDLC) and its importance has enormously grown in recent years due to exponential growth of software industry. In this context, requirements engineering education has become largely indispensable for computing graduates and trainees in software industry. Several studies have explored different dimensions of requirements engineering education and relevant pedagogical techniques over the past few years. This systematic review aims at identifying and highlighting the extant research on REE that is available and to select useful approaches that can help in expediting the growth in this field. The systematic literature review is performed to classify existing literature related to REE into four categories: method/techniques, tools, comparison studies, and frameworks used in REE. After a rigorous evaluation process, 32 primary studies were selected and classified according to these categories. Results of this SLR indicate a significant shift toward this dimension. We have highlighted several research trends and gaps that need to be addressed by the RE community.

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  1. Riphah International University, Faisalabad Campus, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

    Shahzeb Javed, Sahar Ajmal & Umer Iqbal

  2. Department of Computer Science, National University of Computer and Emerging Science (NUCES-FAST), Islamabad, Pakistan

    Khubaib Amjad Alam

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Javed, S., Alam, K.A., Ajmal, S., Iqbal, U. (2022). Requirements Engineering Education: A Systematic Literature Review. In: Ullah, A., Anwar, S., Rocha, Á., Gill, S. (eds) Proceedings of International Conference on Information Technology and Applications. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 350. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-7618-5_41

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