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Requirements Engineering Sources

On this page we list sources of information relevant to Requirements Engineering and related fields.

Update Recent advertisements for industrial, academic and postgraduate opportunities will be posted in the RE Positions section.

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Anthony Finkelstein's AGM Lecture

At the 2004 AGM Anthony Finkelstein delivered a talk on what were, in his opinion, the unsolved problems in Requirements Engineering:

"Unsolved Problems in Requirements Engineering"

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Recent Calls for Papers and Participation

The Third International Workshop on Requirements Engineering Education and Training (REET'08)

9 September 2008

In conjunction with the 16th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE’08).

re.cti.depaul.edu/REET08/

Papers due on 4 July

Effective Requirements Engineering (RE) is increasingly recognized as a critical component in the success of a software development project. This has led to a growing identification of the importance of incorporating significant RE components into the curriculum of university degrees in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology and other related areas. Furthermore many industrial organizations are recognizing the need to develop RE related training programs as part of their ongoing process improvement initiatives.

Following the success of the first and second International Workshop on Requirements Engineering Education and Training (REET 2005 and 2007), this workshop will address issues related to RE education, both as part of a formal university degree and as ongoing skills training within the workplace. The workshop is intended to go much deeper than a surface discussion of curriculum issues and will examine specific ideas and techniques for teaching skills needed by an effective requirements engineer.

In addition to topics related to curriculum development, creative contributions related to pedagogical techniques for teaching RE skills are strongly encouraged. These skills include requirements elicitation, modeling, analysis, conflict negotiation, consensus building, and requirements specification writing and reviewing skills. Submissions could take the form of experience reports or demonstrations of specific teaching techniques and training materials.

Workshop Themes

Curriculum design
- Curriculum for undergraduate and graduate level RE studies.
- Mapping RE elements from the SWEBOK (Software Engineering Body Of Knowledge) to RE curricula.
- Identifying and incorporating specific RE related topics into the general curriculum and/or software engineering courses.
- Curriculum for industrial training programs.

Techniques for teaching specific RE related skills
- Creative methods for teaching stakeholder identification, requirements elicitation, negotiation and consensus building, requirements writing, and other critical RE skills.
- Specific tools, exercises, and assignments developed to support RE skills training.

Effective pedagogical methods for teaching RE skills
- Survey results related to topics such as the effectiveness of teaching methods, RE skills needed to be effective in industry, skill mismatches between graduating students and industry needs etc.
- Studies into the effectiveness of requirements engineering educational practices.
- Experience reports including industrial training and university level curriculum.

Primary objectives

1. Identify core RE skills that should be incorporated into the curriculum at various levels and to outline feasible RE curricular.
2. Exchange ideas on techniques, exercises, and tools for teaching specific RE related skills.
3. Improve understanding of effective RE teaching practices.
4. Initiate a publicly accessible depository of sharable RE educational resources.

Targeted Attendees

- Educators currently teaching or planning on teaching RE courses,
- Academics intending to integrate RE content into existing more generalized courses.
- Practitioners interested in developing or improving RE training in the work place.

Workshop Paper Format

Position papers (3-5 pages)

Short papers will state the position of the author(s) on any of the topics within the scope of the workshop. For example, positions papers could describe experiences with a particular method for teaching an RE related skill, or could describe an innovative approach to incorporating RE education into the degree curriculum. Position papers will be evaluated based on their potential for generating discussion, and on the originality of the positions expressed.

Full papers (8-10 pages)

Full papers will describe requirements engineering educational techniques, survey results, or experiential reports. For example, a full paper might describe a specific technique for teaching an RE skill and include a case study describing its implementation and evaluation of its effectiveness as well as lessons learnt. As another example, a full paper might describe a mature tool for supporting RE training.

Requirements Teaching or Training Activity

Pedagogical papers will describe a teaching activity and provide all of the materials needed to reproduce that activity in the classroom. Authors of full and position papers, plus anyone else interested in attending the workshop are encouraged to submit an RE activity. RE activities will be documented using a predefined format, and will focus on one or more RE skill, define target audience and learning goals, provide step-by-step guidelines for conducting the activity, include student hand-outs or associated slides, describe the context of the activity, and briefly comment on its prior use in the classroom. These activities will be posted onto a wiki and made publicly available following RE’08.

Workshop format

The format of REET’08 will be an interactive one focusing on practical ideas and approaches for teaching RE skills and for constructing effective RE curricular. Paper presentations will be used to foster discussion. Demonstrations of specific teaching techniques and materials will be encouraged. The workshop will conclude with break-out groups working on specific topics such as the initiative for sharing RE resources or discussing RE curriculum and developing appropriate templates.

Important Dates

04 July 2008 - Full papers and position papers due
28 July 2008 - Author notification
08 September 2008 - Camera ready papers due
09 September 2008 - REET Workshop

Workshop co-chairs

Didar Zowghi (didar@it.uts.edu.au)
Jane Cleland-Huang (jhuang@cs.depaul.edu)
Joy Beatty (joy.beatty@seilevel.com)

Co-sponsored by the RESG Coordinator William Heaven

Program Committee

Al Davis (University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA)
Don Gause (Binghamton University, USA)
Vincenzo Gervasi (University of Pisa, Italy)
Martin Glinz (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Olly Gotel (Pace University, New York City, USA)
Igor Hawryszkiewycz (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia)
Soren Lauesen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Roel Wieringa (University of Twente, Netherlands)
Ban Al-Ani (University of California, Irvine, USA)
Lemai Nguyen (Deakin University, Australia)
Jacob Cybulski (Deakin University, Australia)
Dan Berry (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Lucia Rapanotti (Open University, UK)
Yijun Yu (Open University, UK)
Ljerka Beus-Dukic ((University of Westminster, UK)
Ian Alexander (Scenario Plus Ltd., UK)
David Randall (Requirementeering Ltd, Australia)


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Links

Other RE Groups
Mailing Lists
RE Journals
General RE Interest
Conferences
Seminar Series
Consultancy and Training
RE Commercial and Research Tools
RE Bibliographies
Other BCS Specialist Groups


Other RE Groups

Requirements Networking Group






RQNG is a community website specifically devoted to the discipline of "I.T. Requirements Management" aimed at Business Analysts, Systems Analysts, Project Managers, Testers - anyone with a direct association with requirements gathering and related disciplines.

RQNG will be publishing weekly articles, serialized articles, free education articles etc., and encouraging experts to join, submit articles, blogs, forums, form groups, join groups, SIG's etc.

IET Systems Engineering

International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE)

Modern Analyst Community for the Business and Systems Analyst

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Mailing Lists

RE Online
List previously known as SRE (Software Requirements Engineering). Extensive archives dating back tp 1997.

Yahoo Requirements Engineering List
New list set up in 2006.

RESG Mailing List

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RE Journals

Requirements Engineering Journal
Discounted subscription to RESG members (see this form).

Annals of Software Engineering
- Special Volume on Software Requirements Engineering

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General RE Interest

IEEE Task Force on Requirements Engineering (TFRE)

REAIMS Project

The KAOS Approach

RE Tool Vendors

RENOIR
European Network of Excellence in Requirements Engineering

2RARE
Research project that studied the changing requirements of two real applications

RequirementsEngineering.org
Requirement engineering pages maintained by Joachim Giesen, ETH Zurich

"Requirements Engineering: A Roadmap"
A paper by Bashar Nuseibeh and Steve Easterbrook (in Proceedings of International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE-2000), 4-11 June 2000, Limerick, Ireland, ACM Press)

RE Book Reviews
Ian Alexander

RE at the University of Technology, Sydney

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Conferences

RE'05

RE'04

REFSQ'04
International Workshop on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality

RE'03

RE'02

RE'01

ICRE2000

RE'99

RE'97

WET ICE 96
Workshop on Requirements Engineering for Networked Enterprises

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Seminar Series

UNICOM

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Consultancy and Training

Atlantic Systems Guild

ClearSpecs Services

Praxis Critical Systems

Scenario Plus

Volere

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RE Commercial and Research Tools

DOORS/ERS
Dynamic OO Requirements System by Telelogic

METIS
Enterprise Modelling System

Requirements Management Tools
From Ludwig Consulting Services

GMARC
Generic Model Approach to Requirements Capture

SLATE
Systems Level Automation Tool for Engineers

Rational Tools
Complete Suite of Requirements Management Tools

Objects 9000
Rösch Consulting GmbH Germany, Rösch AG, Switzerland

CRADLE
Multi-user methodology independent systems engineering environment

Process Goodies
From Process Impact at www.processimpact.com

easyPilot
The eBusiness Requirements and Design Accelerator

Team-TRACE
Requirements Management Tool developed by WA Systems

Zeus Project
Tool set including checking of natural language and Z. From Department of Computing Science, Virginia

Scenario Presenter
For scenario driven systems engineering. From ART-SCENE, City University's Centre for HCI Design

LiveSpecs Software
Requirements Software for Clear Communication

Objectiver
Stopport for goal-oriented requirements engineering

WIBNI
Requirements Management Database from Project Toolbox

IRqA
Integral Requisite Analyser by TCP SI

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RE Bibliographies

Requirements Bibliography
Alan M Davis

Goal-Oriented Requirements Engineering Bibliography
Axel van Lamsweerde (November 2002)

RE Book Reviews
Ian Alexander

Requirement Resources at LiveSpecs

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Other BCS Specialist Groups

BCS Quality Specialist Group

Other BCS Specialist Groups

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RE Positions

Please post advertisements for RE positions to webmaster@resg.org.uk.

PhD Studentships in Requirements Engineering

City University London is offering a range of full-time PhD studentship awards that will last 3 years. One of research areas covered by these studentship awards is Requirements Engineering. Whilst applications to undertake research in any area of requirements engineering are welcome, applications in the following areas are particularly welcome:

- Requirements engineering, creativity and innovation
- Requirements engineering for service-centric systems
- Handling natural language requirements
- Scenario-based requirements processes
- Requirements and test-driven development
- Requirements and rich media artefacts


City University is a leader in the research of requirements engineering with a strong record of journal and conference publication in the field. Successful PhD applicants will join the current requirements engineering team led by Professor Neil Maiden.

Applicants will be considered for both PhD studentships to be awarded by the University and EPSRC-funded studentships available in the School of Informatics. Details of the studentships can be found at http://www.city.ac.uk/research/resdev/studentships.html. For informal enquiries, contact Neil Maiden at N.A.M.Maiden@city.ac.uk

Closing Date 14 March 2008

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