Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality

1. Front Matter

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2. RE and Architecture

   1. Software Architects’ Experiences of Quality Requirements: What We Know and What We Do Not Know?

      • Maya Daneva, Luigi Buglione, Andrea Herrmann

      Pages 1-17

   2. A Persona-Based Approach for Exploring Architecturally Significant Requirements in Agile Projects

      • Jane Cleland-Huang, Adam Czauderna, Ed Keenan

      Pages 18-33

3. Natural Language Requirements

   1. Using Clustering to Improve the Structure of Natural Language Requirements Documents

      • Alessio Ferrari, Stefania Gnesi, Gabriele Tolomei

      Pages 34-49

   2. Automatic Requirement Categorization of Large Natural Language Specifications at Mercedes-Benz for Review Improvements

      • Daniel Ott

      Pages 50-64

   3. Requirement Ambiguity Not as Important as Expected — Results of an Empirical Evaluation

      • Erik Jan Philippo, Werner Heijstek, Bas Kruiswijk, Michel R. V. Chaudron, Daniel M. Berry

      Pages 65-79

   4. The Design of SREE — A Prototype Potential Ambiguity Finder for Requirements Specifications and Lessons Learned

      • Sri Fatimah Tjong, Daniel M. Berry

      Pages 80-95

4. RE and Quality

   1. Factors Influencing User Feedback on Predicted Satisfaction with Software Systems

      • Rumyana Proynova, Barbara Paech

      Pages 96-111

   2. reqT.org – Towards a Semi-Formal, Open and Scalable Requirements Modeling Tool

      • Björn Regnell

      Pages 112-118

   3. Maps of Lessons Learnt in Requirements Engineering: A Research Preview

      • Ibtehal Noorwali, Nazim H. Madhavji

      Pages 119-124

5. Traceability

   1. Requirements Traceability across Organizational Boundaries - A Survey and Taxonomy

      • Patrick Rempel, Patrick Mäder, Tobias Kuschke, Ilka Philippow

      Pages 125-140

   2. Regulatory Requirements Traceability and Analysis Using Semi-formal Specifications

      • Travis D. Breaux, David G. Gordon

      Pages 141-157

   3. A Survey on Usage Scenarios for Requirements Traceability in Practice

      • Elke Bouillon, Patrick Mäder, Ilka Philippow

      Pages 158-173

6. RE and Business/Goals

   1. The Emergence of Mutual and Shared Understanding in the System Development Process

      • Axel Hoffmann, Eva Alice Christiane Bittner, Jan Marco Leimeister

      Pages 174-189

   2. Highlighting Stakeholder Communities to Support Requirements Decision-Making

      • Zeina Azmeh, Isabelle Mirbel, Pierre Crescenzo

      Pages 190-205

   3. Choosing Compliance Solutions through Stakeholder Preferences

      • Silvia Ingolfo, Alberto Siena, Ivan Jureta, Angelo Susi, Anna Perini, John Mylopoulos

      Pages 206-220

   4. Supporting Decision-Making for Self-Adaptive Systems: From Goal Models to Dynamic Decision Networks

      • Nelly Bencomo, Amel Belaggoun

      Pages 221-236

   5. Mapping i* within UML for Business Modeling

      • Yves Wautelet, Manuel Kolp

      Pages 237-252

   6. Risk Identification at the Interface between Business Case and Requirements

      • David Callele, Birgit Penzenstadler, Krzysztof Wnuk

      Pages 253-268

7. RE and Software Development

   1. Analyzing an Industrial Strategic Release Planning Process – A Case Study at Roche Diagnostics

      • Gabriele Zorn-Pauli, Barbara Paech, Tobias Beck, Hannes Karey, Guenther Ruhe

      Pages 269-284

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality, REFSQ 2013, held in Essen, Germany, in April 2013. The papers are organized in 8 topical sections on requirements engineering and architecture; natural language requirements; requirements engineering and quality; traceability; requirements engineering and business/goals; requirements engineering and software development; requirements engineering in practice; product lines and product management.

• decision making
• natural language processing
• requirements modeling
• semi-formal specifications
• software development

• Fraunhofer-Institut Experimentelles Software Engineering, Kaiserslautern, Germany

  Joerg Doerr

• Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

  Andreas L. Opdahl

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