Requirements engineering in automotive development: experiences and challenges

Implementing requirements engineering processes throughout organizations: success factors and challenges

“…According to Weber and Weisbrod, requirements management tools are the number one instrument for leveraging RE practices [44]. On the other hand, Hofmann and Lehner report that commercially available RE tools interfered with rather than supported RE activities [15].…”

“…Our findings support the experience of Weber and Weisbrod. According to them, tool support represents both an opportunity and a risk in RE process improvement [44].…”

Requirements communication and balancing in large-scale software-intensive product development

“…Requirements engineering (RE) is commonly identified as crucial and plays a vital role in the potential success of such development efforts [3,6,7]. In particular, the effectiveness of both formal and informal coordination and communication of requirements across organizational boundaries is critical [8,9].…”

“…In particular, the effectiveness of both formal and informal coordination and communication of requirements across organizational boundaries is critical [8,9]. techniques for enhancing requirements specification quality have been emphasized, but the increased complexity has made these solutions less applicable [3,6]. In addition, using standards as a coordination mechanism is a key to manage interdependencies in development work [12,13].…”

“…For this, software process improvement (SPI) frameworks, such as CMMI [14], ISO/IEC 15504 (a.k.a SPICE) [15], are central to software-intensive systems development. However, they provide little guidance on what the actual implementation should look like, and adopt a one-sizefits-all view without considering the specific needs of organizations and projects [6,16,17].…”