Brownfield RE

Welcome to the RESG Brownfield Requirements Engineering Pages

Requirements Engineering textbooks and training courses nearly always begin "from the beginning" with the capture of requirements for a wholly new product or system. But this is and has always been the exceptional case. For every extraordinary "green-field" leap of innovation, there are 20 projects that quietly advance the state of the art by developing existing systems and software. Further, even highly innovative products usually have to comply with existing interfaces and standards, or form parts of product lines with shared requirements and timelines. In short, almost every development is "brownfield". But hardly any current research focuses on brownfield development, and few published guidelines exist.

On this page you can find relevant resources that grapple with the issues of brownfield requirements development.