Empirical research methodologies and studies in Requirements Engineering: How far did we come?

Daneva, Maya; Damian, Daniela; Marchetto, Alessandro; Pastor, Oscar

doi:10.1016/j.jss.2014.06.035

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“…In the name of repeatability and enhancing the knowledge of the field, we have made our publication data and category descriptions publicly available. 9 We encourage further analysis, investigation, and expansion of our data.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 91%

“…Although this is challenging without similarly structured SMS for other topics, we are able to make some comparison regarding the use of empirical methods. An editorial by Daneva et al evaluates the status of empirical methods in RE by looking at existing SLRs [9] and finds that the number of empirical studies published in RE venues has increased dramatically in the last ten years. In our results, although we note what appears to be a slight increase in case studies, we find the number of GORE-related papers with evaluation has increased more or less at the same rate of increase of GORE papers in general.…”

Section: Survey Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This helps us to gage the convergence and maturity of the field. Given the rising interest in empirical RE [9], we want to understand the type of evaluation GORE papers have applied (RQ2). We want to know for what types of problems goal models have been applied (RQ3).…”

Section: Research Questionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The Daneva et al evaluation, looking at existing SLRs in RE [9], finds two reviews related to GORE [13,20]. The former is the previous work of some of the authors, while the latter, focusing on compliance, was omitted from our survey as it appeared in a workshop.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Goal-oriented requirements engineering: an extended systematic mapping study

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Over the last two decades, much attention has been paid to the area of goal-oriented requirements engineering (GORE), where goals are used as a useful conceptualization to elicit, model, and analyze requirements, capturing alternatives and conflicts. Goal modeling has been adapted and applied to many sub-topics within requirements engineering (RE) and beyond, such as agent orientation, aspect orientation, business intelligence, model-driven development, and security. Despite extensive efforts in this field, the RE community lacks a recent, general systematic literature review of the area. In this work, we present a systematic mapping study, covering the 246 top-cited GORE-related conference and journal papers, according to Scopus. Our literature map addresses several research questions: we classify the types of papers (e.g., proposals, formalizations, meta-studies), look at the presence of evaluation, the topics covered (e.g., security, agents, scenarios), frameworks used, venues, citations, author networks, and overall publication numbers. For most questions, we evaluate trends over time. Our findings show a proliferation of papers with new ideas and few citations, with a small number of authors and papers dominating citations; however, there is a slight rise in papers which build upon past work (implementations, integrations, and extensions). We see a rise in papers concerning adaptation/variability/evolution and a slight rise in case studies. Overall, interest in GORE has increased. We use our analysis results to make recommendations concerning future GORE research and make our data publicly available.

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Interoperability : - capability to interoperate in a shared work practice using information infrastructures

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InteroperabilityCapability to interoperate in a shared work practice using information infrastructures -studies in ePrescribing Columbo AbstractThe ability to interoperate between systems, people, and organizations is considered an important issue within eHealth in order to deliver patient centered care. The achieving and improving of interoperability is a complex undertaking involving the evolution of an information infrastructure, sharing of knowledge and resources, governance of the interoperation between organizations, people and work practices, and handling of economic and legal matters. However, there is a weak scientific basis for interoperability, and proposed initiatives to improve interoperability largely lacks empirical evidence of their utility.This thesis contributes with practical knowledge on improving interoperability, based on active participation in and empirical studies of improving interoperability in ePrescribing. A case study is presented that describes and analyzes the evolution of ePrescribing in Sweden since the early pioneering years in 1980s, its growth and consolidation before the reregulation of the pharmacy market in 2009. The case study shows the importance of cooperation between the stakeholders for the growth and consolidation of ePrescribing, and identifies important events in the evolution of an advanced information infrastructure. To better understand the complexity of ePrescribing work practice, a practical theory on ePrescribing was developed. A unique field experimental study measuring improvement of interoperability in ePrescribing, before and after a major intervention to improve the quality of ePrescriptions between 2004 and 2009 is presented. The findings from the field experimental study showed that collective efforts to clarify and align the shared ePrescribing work practice and the ePrescription message contributed to substantially improve interoperability in ePrescribing.Based on the findings and knowledge gathered in the situational inquiry into the evolution of ePrescribing in Sweden, the improvement of interoperability, and the application of theories about information systems actability, communication and organizational theories, a practical theory on interoperation and interoperability aiming both towards the practice and research community is presented. Interoperability is seen as the exercised capability of organizations through their agents to interoperate in a shared work practice in an effective, efficient, and satisfactory manner based on a common ground in a mediated, prescriptive, and nonpersonal communicative setting using an information infrastructure for mediating interoperation. The plausibility that the theory of interoperation and interoperability grounded in ePrescribing is generalizable to eHealth is analyzed. ForewordInformation Systems Development (ISD) is a research discipline within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Linköping University (LiU), Linköping Sweden. ISD is a discipline studying human work with developing and changing different...

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Automatic builder of class diagram (ABCD): an application of UML generation from functional requirements

Karâa¹,

Azzouz

Singh

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Softw Pract Exp

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Summary Software development life cycle is a structured process, including the definition of user requirements specification, the system design, and programming. The design task comprises the transfer of natural language specifications into models. The class diagram of Unified Modeling Language has been considered as one of the most useful diagrams. It is a formal description of user's requirements and serves as inputs to the developers. The automated extraction of UML class diagram from natural language requirements is a highly challenging task. This paper explains our vision of an automated tool for class diagram generation from user requirements expressed in natural language. Our new approach amalgamates the statistical and pattern recognition properties of natural language processing techniques. More than 1000 patterns are defined for the extraction of the class diagram concepts. Once these concepts are captured, an XML Metadata Interchange file is generated and imported with a Computer‐Aided Software Engineering tool to build the corresponding UML class diagram. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Empirical research methodologies and studies in Requirements Engineering: How far did we come?

Cited by 47 publications

References 35 publications

Goal-oriented requirements engineering: an extended systematic mapping study

Goal-oriented requirements engineering: an extended systematic mapping study

Interoperability : - capability to interoperate in a shared work practice using information infrastructures

Automatic builder of class diagram (ABCD): an application of UML generation from functional requirements

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