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Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality

18th International Working Conference, REFSQ 2012, Essen, Germany, March 2012, Proceedings

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 7195)

Part of the book sub series: Programming and Software Engineering (LNPSE)

Conference series link(s): REFSQ: International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality

Conference proceedings info: REFSQ 2012.

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Table of contents (27 papers)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Session 1: Contractual Requirements

    1. Why the Electronic Land Registry Failed

      • Soren Lauesen
      Pages 1-15
    2. Answering a Request for Proposal – Challenges and Proposed Solutions

      • Barbara Paech, Robert Heinrich, Gabriele Zorn-Pauli, Andreas Jung, Siamak Tadjiky
      Pages 16-29
    3. Impediments to Requirements-Compliance

      • Md. Rashed Iqbal Nekvi, Nazim H. Madhavji, Remo Ferrari, Brian Berenbach
      Pages 30-36
  3. Session 2: Quality Requirements

    1. How Architects See Non-Functional Requirements: Beware of Modifiability

      • Eltjo R. Poort, Nick Martens, Inge van de Weerd, Hans van Vliet
      Pages 37-51
    2. A Simulation Approach for Impact Analysis of Requirement Volatility Considering Dependency Change

      • Junjie Wang, Juan Li, Qing Wang, He Zhang, Haitao Wang
      Pages 59-76
  4. Session 3: Collaboration, Complexity and Creativity

    1. Collaborative Resolution of Requirements Mismatches When Adopting Open Source Components

      • Nguyen Duc Anh, Daniela S. Cruzes, Reidar Conradi, Martin Höst, Xavier Franch, Claudia Ayala
      Pages 77-93
  5. Session 4: Requirements Analysis

    1. Aligning Mal-activity Diagrams and Security Risk Management for Security Requirements Definitions

      • Mohammad Jabed Morshed Chowdhury, Raimundas Matulevičius, Guttorm Sindre, Peter Karpati
      Pages 132-139
    2. Towards a More Semantically Transparent i* Visual Syntax

      • Nicolas Genon, Patrice Caire, Hubert Toussaint, Patrick Heymans, Daniel Moody
      Pages 140-146
  6. Session 6: Requirements Traceability

    1. Trace Queries for Safety Requirements in High Assurance Systems

      • Jane Cleland-Huang, Mats Heimdahl, Jane Huffman Hayes, Robyn Lutz, Patrick Maeder
      Pages 179-193
  7. Session 7: Tools and Quality

    1. The Case for Dumb Requirements Engineering Tools

      • Daniel Berry, Ricardo Gacitua, Pete Sawyer, Sri Fatimah Tjong
      Pages 211-217
    2. Automatic Analysis of Multimodal Requirements: A Research Preview

      • Elia Bruni, Alessio Ferrari, Norbert Seyff, Gabriele Tolomei
      Pages 218-224

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About this book

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality, REFSQ 2012, held in Essen, Germany, in March 2012. The papers are organized in 10 topical sections on contractual requirements, quality requirements, collaboration, complexity and creativity, requirements analysis, templates and heuristics, requirements traceability, tools and quality, services and clouds, self-adaptivity, and industrial case studies,

Keywords

  • empirical evaluation
  • failure analysis
  • requirements modeling
  • risk management
  • safety critical software

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Computer Science, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

    Björn Regnell

  • Computer Engineering Department, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada

    Daniela Damian

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