Industrial practices on requirements reuse: An interview-based study
dc.contributor.author | Franch Gutiérrez, Javier |
dc.contributor.author | Palomares Bonache, Cristina |
dc.contributor.author | Quer, Carme |
dc.contributor.other | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament d'Enginyeria de Serveis i Sistemes d'Informació |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-02-08T08:02:02Z |
dc.date.available | 2021-02-08T08:02:02Z |
dc.date.issued | 2020 |
dc.identifier.citation | Franch, X.; Palomares, C.; Quer, C. Industrial practices on requirements reuse: An interview-based study. A: International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality. "Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality, 26th International Working Conference, REFSQ 2020: Pisa, Italy, March 24–27, 2020: proceedings". Berlín: Springer, 2020, p. 78-94. ISBN 978-3-030-44429-7. DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-44429-7_6. |
dc.identifier.isbn | 978-3-030-44429-7 |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2117/337036 |
dc.description.abstract | [Context and motivation] Requirements reuse has been proposed asa key asset for requirements engineers to efficiently elicit, validate and document softwarer equirements and, as a consequence, obtain requirements specifications of better quality through more effective engineering processes.[Question/problem] Regardless the impact requirements reuse could have in software projects’ suc-cess and efficiency, the requirements engineering community has published veryfew studies reporting the way in which this activity is conducted in industry. [Principal ideas/results] In this paper, we present the results of an interview-based study involving 24 IT professionals on whether they reuse requirementsor not and how. Some kind of requirements reuse is carried out by the majorityof respondents, being organizational and project-related factors the main drivers.Quality requirements are the type most reused. The most common strategy isfind-copy-paste-adapt. Respondents agreed that requirements reuse is beneficial,especially for project-related reasons. The most stated challenge to overcome inrequirements reuse is related to the domain of the project and the development of acompletely new system. [Contribution] With this study, we contribute to the stateof the practice in the reuse of requirements by showing how real organizationscarry out this process and the factors that influence it. |
dc.description.sponsorship | This work has been partially funded by the Horizon 2020 project OpenReq, which is supported by the European Union under the Grant Nr. 732463. |
dc.format.extent | 17 p. |
dc.language.iso | eng |
dc.publisher | Springer |
dc.subject | Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Informàtica::Enginyeria del software |
dc.subject.lcsh | Requirements engineering |
dc.subject.lcsh | Computer software -- Quality control |
dc.subject.other | Requirements reuse |
dc.subject.other | Requirements elicitation |
dc.subject.other | Requirements documentation |
dc.subject.other | Survey |
dc.subject.other | Interview-based study |
dc.title | Industrial practices on requirements reuse: An interview-based study |
dc.type | Conference report |
dc.subject.lemac | Enginyeria de requisits |
dc.subject.lemac | Programari -- Control de qualitat |
dc.contributor.group | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. inSSIDE - integrated Software, Service, Information and Data Engineering |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1007/978-3-030-44429-7_6 |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed |
dc.relation.publisherversion | https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-44429-7_6 |
dc.rights.access | Open Access |
local.identifier.drac | 30451932 |
dc.description.version | Postprint (author's final draft) |
dc.relation.projectid | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/732463/EU/Intelligent Recommendation Decision Technologies for Community-Driven Requirements Engineering/OPENREQ |
local.citation.author | Franch, X.; Palomares, C.; Quer, C. |
local.citation.contributor | International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality |
local.citation.pubplace | Berlín |
local.citation.publicationName | Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality, 26th International Working Conference, REFSQ 2020: Pisa, Italy, March 24–27, 2020: proceedings |
local.citation.startingPage | 78 |
local.citation.endingPage | 94 |
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