Requirements Engineering and Technology Transfer: Obstacles, Incentives and Improvement Agenda

Kaindl, Hermann; Brinkkemper, Sjaak; Bubenko, Janis A.; Farbey, Barbara; Greenspan, Steven; Heitmeyer, Constance L.; Leite, Julio César Sampaio do Prado; Mead, Nancy R.; Mylopoulos, John; Siddiqi, Jawed I. A.

doi:10.1007/s007660200008

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“…The overall goal of our research is to reduce the existing gap between RE research and industrial RE practice [14]. When considering the current research on goaloriented requirements engineering, a lot of research is done related to the i* goal language.…”

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A Goal-Oriented Requirements Engineering Method for Business Processes

Decreus

Poels

2011

Progress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis, Computer Vision, and Applications

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Abstract. The field of requirements engineering (RE) for business processes has grown during the last several years. As business processes are needed to fulfil organizational goals, the information captured in goal models provides a basis for designing business processes. Although research has started to explore how to transform goal models into business process models, current transformation methods need further research. This paper proposes a toolsupported method to model goals as part of the business requirements for business processes and to automatically generate business process design skeletons that respond to these business requirements.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Goal-Oriented Requirements Engineering Method for Business Processes

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Poels

2011

Progress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis, Computer Vision, and Applications

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“…Such an approach may also be fruitful for the evaluation of a novel conceptual tool (such as a design or requirements method), by assessing whether it is appreciated by a community of users [36].…”

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Goal-driven requirements analysis for hypermedia-intensive Web applications

Bolchini

Puppa

2004

Requirements Engineering

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Requirements analysis for Web applications still needs to employ effective RE practices to accommodate some distinctive aspects: capturing high-level communication goals, considering several user profiles, defining hypermedia-specific requirements, bridging the gap between requirements and Web design, and reusing requirements for an effective usability evaluation. Techniques should be usable, informal, require little training effort, and show relative advantage to project managers. On the basis of the i * framework, this paper presents a proposal for defining hypermedia requirements (concerning aspects such as content, interaction, navigation, and presentation) for Web applications. The model adopts a goal-driven approach coupled with scenario-based techniques, introduces a hypermedia requirement taxonomy to facilitate Web conceptual design, and paves the way for systematic usability evaluation. Particular attention is paid to the empirical validation of the model based on the perceived quality attributes theory. A case study developed with industrial partners is discussed.

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“…Requirements engineering research is suggested to have limited impact on industry practice (Juristo et al 2002;Kaindl et al 2002;Morris et al 1998). Thus, investigating the level of relevance and rigor of requirements engineering research, and how it has changed over time can provide insight into one factor potentially influencing this shortcoming.…”

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A method for evaluating rigor and industrial relevance of technology evaluations

2010

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One of the main goals of an applied research field such as software engineering is the transfer and widespread use of research results in industry. To impact industry, researchers developing technologies in academia need to provide tangible evidence of the advantages of using them. This can be done trough step-wise validation, enabling researchers to gradually test and evaluate technologies to finally try them in real settings with real users and applications. The evidence obtained, together with detailed information on how the validation was conducted, offers rich decision support material for industry practitioners seeking to adopt new technologies and researchers looking for an empirical basis on which to build new or refined technologies. This paper presents model for evaluating the rigor and industrial relevance of technology evaluations in software engineering. The model is applied and validated in a comprehensive systematic literature review of evaluations of requirements engineering technologies published in software engineering journals. The aim is to show the applicability of the model and to characterize how evaluations are carried out and reported to evaluate the state-of-research. The review shows that the model can be applied to characterize evaluations in requirements engineering. The findings from applying the model also show that the majority of technology evaluations in requirements engineering lack both industrial relevance and rigor. In addition, the research field does not show any improvements in terms of industrial relevance over time.

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Requirements Engineering and Technology Transfer: Obstacles, Incentives and Improvement Agenda

Cited by 109 publications

References 27 publications

A Goal-Oriented Requirements Engineering Method for Business Processes

A Goal-Oriented Requirements Engineering Method for Business Processes

Goal-driven requirements analysis for hypermedia-intensive Web applications

A method for evaluating rigor and industrial relevance of technology evaluations

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