A field study of the requirements engineering practice in Australian software industry

Sadraei, Emila; Aurum, Aybüke; Beydoun, Ghassan; Paech, Barbara

doi:10.1007/s00766-007-0042-4

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“…Towards this, it focussed on QoS-aware service selection and composition which has been subject to considerable attention recently e.g [19][20][21]. Functional and non-functional properties are typically seen as the two essential aspects for requirement analysis [4] and they are typically used to describe the semantic of Web services. Functional properties describe how a web service meets the functional requirements of an anticipated service while non-functional properties describe the performance of the service.…”

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An MAS-Based Implementation for Semantic Web Services Composition

Shen

Beydoun

Low

2013

Information Systems Development

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Many information system developers face high cost in adopting service-oriented architectures because of the high cost of locating appropriate services to customise and integrate into their system. This chapter aims at reducing this cost by automating much of the composition and service selection effort. It illustrates the use of a peer-to-peer multi-agent system (MAS) to facilitate service selection with multiple quality of service properties. The system will use semantic enrichment of services in order to facilitate their identification and composition. With semantic-driven composition, services can be shared between teams of developers and across multiple organisations connected via the Internet. In this chapter, we focus on a conceptual framework for peer selection with a preliminary mathematical model and a selection process, so as to enhance the P2P-based service coordination system and its components. Abstract. Many information systems developers face high cost in adopting service oriented architectures because of the high cost of locating appropriate services to customise and integrate into their system. This paper aims at reducing this cost by automating much of the composition and service selection effort. It illustrates the use of a Peer-Peer multi agent system (MAS) to facilitate service selection with multiple Quality of Service properties. The system will use semantic enrichment of services in order to facilitate their identification and composition. With semantic driven composition, services can be shared between teams of developers and across multiple organisations connected via the Internet. In this paper, we focus on a conceptual framework for peer selection with a preliminary mathematical model and a selection process, so as to enhance the P2P-based service coordination system and its components.

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An MAS-Based Implementation for Semantic Web Services Composition

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Beydoun

Low

2013

Information Systems Development

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“…In Australia also questionnaire was used to target 16 companies, the study focused on effort required for requirement engineering activities in projects and this study also showed a difference in effort for different kinds of project e.g. external projects and in house development [21].…”

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Requirements Engineering in Software Houses of Pakistan

Ali¹,

Rafiq²,

Majeed³

2014

IJMECS

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Abstract-Requirement engineering is an essence of software development life cycle. The more time we spend on requirement engineering, higher the probability of success. Effective requirement engineering ensures and predicts successful software product. This paper presents the adaptation of requirement engineering practices in small and medium size companies of Pakistan. The study is conducted by questionnaires to show how much of requirement engineering models and practices are followed in Pakistan.

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“…It was found that RE caused 48% of all discovered problems. Sadraei et al [17] performed a field study regarding RE practices in the Australian software development industry; their study involved 28 software projects from 16 different software development firms. Their study examined RE practices and then compared the results with well-known RE models to identify the gap between theory and practice.…”

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High Perceived-Value Requirements Engineering Practices for Outsourced Software Projects

Ahmad¹,

Nasir²,

Iqbal³

et al. 2015

JSW

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This paper identifies high perceived-value requirements engineering (RE) practices specifically for outsourced software development projects. This is part of a study that aims to develop a framework for critical requirements engineering (RE) practices for outsourced software development projects. We used a survey questionnaire as the primary approach to collect data from 193 software development practitioners from 62 companies in Malaysia. The practitioners were asked to identify which RE practices, out of the 66 practices of Sommerville's framework, are considered critical for outsourced projects. Specifically, the practitioners were asked to assess and categorize the practices into four categories: high, medium, low and zero value. Only two RE practices were assigned a 'high value' by the practitioners and another 26 practices were assigned a 'medium' value. The findings show that there is an increased awareness of the importance of RE practices among Malaysian practitioners because only a very low percentage of the respondents selected most of the practices as zero-or low-value practices. Secondly, all the 28 practices ranked as 'high' and 'medium' value practices are critical and should be given high emphasis in the outsourced projects. Moreover, due to the many more specific characteristics of outsourced projects, the study also implies that there is an urgent need to identify other RE practices or other related software engineering practices that are critical for outsourced projects but that have not been captured within Sommerville's framework.

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A field study of the requirements engineering practice in Australian software industry

Cited by 63 publications

References 39 publications

An MAS-Based Implementation for Semantic Web Services Composition

An MAS-Based Implementation for Semantic Web Services Composition

Requirements Engineering in Software Houses of Pakistan

High Perceived-Value Requirements Engineering Practices for Outsourced Software Projects

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