Creativity has been the subject of considerable research over the last 60 years. This keynote will argue that most requirements work is creative but not recognized as such. It will summarize recent applications of creativity theories and techniques to requirements work, then posit the general case that most requirements activities involve information search and idea discovery, and hence can be ...

The panelists will look back at the progress in requirements engineering since its emergence as a fullfledged sub-discipline of software engineering in 1976.. This was primarily marked by a set of special sessions on software requirements engineering at ICSE 2 in October, 1976, followed by the publication of some of the key ICSE 2 papers in the January 1977 IEEE Transactions on Software Enginee...

[Context and Motivation] Requirements engineering (RE) research is expected to provide methods that address the specific challenges of industrial systems engineering. [Question/problem] For this purpose, researchers need a detailed understanding of the needs and expectations that the industry has regarding RE methods. [Principal ideas/results] To identify the key industry needs, we have conduct...

The celebration of 25th anniversary of the Brazilian Symposium of Software Engineering (SBES) as well as the forthcoming Requirements Engineering Conference to be held in Brazil for the first time, has led us to have a closer look at the local Requirements Engineering (RE) Community. A systematic mapping was performed in order to find out the main Brazilian research groups, authors as well as t...

During the past few years, we have seen some dramatic events that support licensing and certification of software professionals. The decision to license software engineers in the state of Texas was a landmark event. Other significant events include the establishment of undergraduate degree programs in software engineering, the merger of the CSAB and ABET accrediting bodies, and the plan to accr...

eParticipation systems are often directly targeted at citizens. However, as a group of potential users, citizens form a heterogeneous and unpredictable group, which makes requirements elicitation a challenging issue. Based on recently developed ideas for wide audience requirement engineering (WARE), this chapter discusses and elaborates a method for eliciting citizen requirements for eParticipa...

Guidance plays a crucial role in requirements engineering (RE) as this task is both ill defined and highly intellectual. The guidance approach presented in this paper consists of supporting requirements engineers by a collection of enactable guidelines embodied in a computer environment. The key characteristics of the approach is its intention orientation. Guidance can be provided once the inte...

Requirements engineering education at universities is a fairly difficult issue for various reasons. Among the most prominent causes is a lack of authenticity, i.e. too artificial settings that do not adequately mirror the complexity of realworld situations. We present an approach to requirements engineering education that tries to avoid some of these shortcomings, in particular by including req...

Group facilitation is an important element of group approaches to Requirements Engineering (RE). The facilitation in ‘traditional’ face-to-face groups is challenged by the increased globalization of the software industry. Thorough empirical investigation of human facilitation in computer-mediated requirements meetings is needed. This paper presents findings about the facilitation of distributed...

Requirements specification is a complex activity, where the automated support by the requirements engineering (RE) tools plays an important role. However, the surveys report that the mainstream practice relies on office and modelling tools rather than the targeted RE-tools. This work performs a case study, where two requirements specification processes are analyzed. In order to prepare a requir...