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Agile Requirements Engineering: A Research Perspective

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Agile methodologies have impact not only on coding, but also on requirements engineering activities. In the paper agile requirements engineering is examined from the research point of view. It is claimed that use cases are a better tool for requirements description than user stories as they allow zooming through abstraction levels, can be reused for user manual generation, and when used properly can provide quite good effort estimates. Moreover, as it follows from recent research, parts of use cases (namely event descriptions) can be generated in an automatic way. Also the approach to non-functional requirements can be different. Our experience shows that they can be elicited very fast and can be quite stable.

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  • Requirements engineering
  • agility
  • use cases
  • non-functional requirements
  • effort estimation
  • user manual

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  1. Institute of Computing Science, Poznan University of Technology, ul. Piotrowo 2, 60-965, Poznań, Poland

    Jerzy Nawrocki, Mirosław Ochodek, Jakub Jurkiewicz, Sylwia Kopczyńska & Bartosz Alchimowicz

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  1. Dep. Computer Sci., P. J. Šafárik University, Jesenná 5, 04154, Košice, Slovakia

    Viliam Geffert

  2. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 3001, Leuven-Heverlee, Belgium

    Bart Preneel

  3. Department of Computer Science, Comenius University, Mlynska Dolina, 84248, Bratislava, Slovakia

    Branislav Rovan

  4. Institute of Computer Science, Academy of Sciences, 18207, Prague, Czech Republic

    Július Štuller

  5. Institute of Software Technology, Vienna University of Technology, Favoritenstraße 9-11 / 188, 1040, Vienna, Austria

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Nawrocki, J., Ochodek, M., Jurkiewicz, J., Kopczyńska, S., Alchimowicz, B. (2014). Agile Requirements Engineering: A Research Perspective. In: Geffert, V., Preneel, B., Rovan, B., Štuller, J., Tjoa, A.M. (eds) SOFSEM 2014: Theory and Practice of Computer Science. SOFSEM 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8327. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04298-5_5

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