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Crowd-based requirements engineering (CrowdRE) is promising to derive requirements by gathering and analyzing information from the crowd. Setting up CrowdRE in practice seems challenging, although first solutions to support CrowdRE exist. In this paper, we report on a German software company's experience on crowd involvement by using feedback communication channels and a monitoring solution for user-event...
User story literature nearly exclusively studies how to create, prioritise, or ensure the quality of a user story. Little is known about other activities and artefacts involved preceding or following these activities in systems development. Consequentially, software teams seeking to leverage user stories’ full potential do not know how to incorporate user stories into all aspects of their software...
Goal understanding and communication of requirements are vital for ensuring that large and complex project organizations collaborate efficiently. We have used a design science approach to explore and address the problem of communication for large IT projects. We designed a method for avoiding communication gaps by eliciting information regarding stakeholders and information flows. The MAPS (Mapping...
Collecting and using user feedback as a method to support requirements engineering, might undermine user rights. This becomes apparent when looking at related areas, e.g., research in user experience, where collecting user feedback also plays an important role. In such settings, researchers need to ensure that the stakeholders' rights and integrity are respected. This paper identifies and discusses...
Feedback communication channels allow end-users to express their needs, which can be considered in software development and evolution. Although feedback gathering and analysis have been identified as an important topic and several researchers have started their investigation, information is scarce on how software companies currently elicit end-user feedback. In this study, we explore the experiences...
According to a 2015 survey, 5% of capstone design course instructors indicated that their courses involve students from more than one engineering discipline [1]. Students in these courses may hear presentations on topics of common interest and work together on project teams that require knowledge and skills from more than one discipline. Some courses make use of occasional breakout sessions in which...
Motivated by their success in software development, companies implement agile methods and their practices increasingly for software-intense, large products, such as cars, telecommunication infrastructure, and embedded systems. Such systems are usually subject to safety and regulative concerns as well as different development cycles of hardware and software. Consequently, requirements engineering involves...
A panel discussing the role of requirements engineering (RE) in agile software development is organized at the 25th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE’17) taking place in Lisbon, Portugal during September 4-8, 2017. Agile software practices introduce important changes to traditional understandings about requirements, such as how much to elicit and model, in which form to document,...
In requirements elicitation interviews, ambiguities identified by analysts can help to disclose the tacit knowledge of customers. Indeed, ambiguities might reveal implicit or hard to express information that needs to be elicited. The perception of ambiguity might depend on the subject who is acting as analyst, and different analysts might identify different ambiguities in the same interview. Based...
Nowadays agile development has become a mainstream development methodology. Yet agile is still lacking in how in-depth it deals with Requirement Engineering (RE) compared to the other development stages. There have been attempts to apply agile RE techniques to traditional development and conversely to apply traditional RE techniques to agile development. But the biggest problem is that it is difficult...
Being able to quickly and accurately capture requirements is crucial when using agile methodologies. Requirements, to that end, are often captured in an as-needed and informal manner, with continuous stakeholder interaction. Techniques such as interviews, user stories, rapid feedback, and text mining are commonly used in the industry to gather such informal requirements, which are often congruent...
As agile methods become more pervasive, agile practices are applied to more large-scale systems with a scope that goes beyond pure software. The expansion of agile in these contexts provides benefits, but creates new challenges. Widespread use of agile has changed the way we must think about practices both in Requirements Engineering (RE) and in System Testing (ST). Our experience shows that many...
Vagueness in software requirements documents can lead to several maintenance problems, especially when the customer and development team do not share the same language. Currently, companies rely on human translators to maintain communication and limit vagueness by translating the requirement documents by hand. In this paper, we describe two approaches that automatically identify vagueness in requirements...
Passive learning techniques infer graph models on the behavior of a system from large trace logs. The research community has been dedicating great effort in making passive learning techniques more scalable and ready to use by industry. However, there is still a lack of empirical knowledge on the usefulness and applicability of such techniques in large scale real systems. To that aim, we conducted...
The purpose of this paper is to develop a framework to use Assurance Case methodology for Industrial IoT systems (IIoT). To achieve a general goal we discuss the three following issues. Firstly, a brief analysis of state-of-the-art researches and resources in area of Assurance Case is done. Secondly, we discuss specific components for IIoT Assurance Case with focus on Security Assurance. Thirdly,...
A software project is typically completed as a result of a collective effort done by individuals of different personalities. Personality reflects differences among people in behaviour patterns, communication, cognition and emotion. It often impacts relationships and collaborative work, and software engineering teamwork is no exception. Some personalities are more likely to click while others to clash...
Rapid development of computer technology led to the formation of a whole range of information and communication technologies related to the progress of computer networks; its expansion promoted to the creation of the Internet, which allowed to change entire sectors of the economy and had a great impact on the transformation of teaching in engineering and economic education. There appeared a whole...
The basic indicators of the life cycle of technology were analyzed and the generalized system for the evaluation of the life cycle phase is allocated. Indicators are considered as properties that technology must have to fit a certain stage of its existence. The existing approaches of technology development analysis were studied. The generalized classification, which is a list of indexes for the proper...
The current state of the development of education in Ukraine in the field of information technology is analyzed. The ways of improving the efficiency of the educational training in the field of information technology are suggested.
The amount of raw data related to electricity companies is increasing rapidly with the increase of construction sites, population and Qatar preparation for 2022 world cup. A question arises from this situation is: How can top level managers keep track of the consumption and plan ahead for the future? The solution is a customized web application that provides an easy way for visualizing the electricity...
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