How Can Requirements Engineering Research Become Requirements Engineering Practice?

The path from conceptualization of a good idea to its widespread use in industry is usually long, complicated, and fraught with peril. Too often, research justified as satisfying the needs of industry begins with a wrong or simplified understanding of industry’s problems. Even given a real solution to a real problem, successful transfer of that solution into practice depends on many other factors such as funding, the emergence of champions, availability of tools, education, integration with existing methods, and all too often, plain luck. This panel will explore how methods for requirements engineering for realtime and embedded systems can be moved into practice. Representatives from industry will discuss their needs and problems using existing methods, members of the research community will discuss current research trends, and tool vendors will discuss the difficulties of moving a good solution to a real problem into practice. Each speaker will be asked to briefly state, with respect to requirements engineering for real-time, embedded systems: