Evidence-Based Structuring and Evaluation of Empirical Research in Requirements Engineering

Abstract

Empirical knowledge on the appropriateness and desirability of competing methods and techniques of requirements engineering is rare. At the same time, existing knowledge has been achieved by different research methods which have not yet been consolidated. The paper structures empirical knowledge, evaluates it, and represents it in a research map. It will be demonstrated how this approach allows empirical knowledge to be more consistently transferred into practice. At the same time, we will identify main focuses and gaps in research in the field of requirements engineering.

Requirements Engineering for Product Service Systems

“…Afterwards, the 100 most cited articles of each domain were examined and sorted into the following categories: (a) Articles that constitute a generic approach/process model: the generality and spread of the respective article comprised the selection criteria for this category (see Goeken and Patas 2010 these papers are not considered here. In Tab.…”

“…The goal is to illustrate the subject area of general approaches in RE for PSS in order to structure older and future research (Goeken and Patas 2010). The framework (Sect.…”

“…The task is not only to illustrate the subject area of RE for PSS, but also to make the background knowledge and assumptions of the researchers explicit (see Goeken and Patas 2010). This is particularly important in RE, since there is no possibility of referring to theories for supporting research work.…”

“…Respecting the requirements to a framework for RE by Goeken and Patas (2010), we derived the following requirements to our framework:…”

Evidence-Based Information Systems: A New Perspective and a Road Map for Research-Informed Practice

“…However they recognise that software engineering does not have an equivalent homogeneous professional culture, long-standing institutions, unified scientific goals, government support and funding, as enjoyed by the Cochrane Collaboration, so such an infrastructure will be harder to establish. This focus on the production of SLRs, as the main mechanism for the development of evidence-based approaches to IS, is now gaining more interest and acceptance within the mainstream of IS research (Goeken & Patas, 2010;Goeken, 2011;Oates, 2011;Oates et al, 2012;Patas et al, 2012) although it is not without its critics (Boell & Cecez-Kecmanovic, 2015). More SLRs are being published in the IS literature (e.g.…”