Exploring impact of Requirements Engineering on other it project areas - case study

• Autorzy: Jarzębowicz Aleksander , Poniatowska Katarzyna

Identyfikatory

DOI

10.7494/csci.2020.21.3.3618

• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Requirements Engineering (RE) is recognized as one of the most important (yet difficult) areas of software engineering that has a significant impact on other areas of IT projects and their final outcomes. Empirical studies investigating this impact are hard to conduct, mainly due to the great effort required. It is thus difficult for both researchers and industry practitioners to make evidence-based evaluations about how decisions about RE practices translate into requirement quality and influence other project areas. We propose an idea of a lightweight approach utilizing widely-used tools to enable such an evaluation without extensive effort. This is illustrated with a pilot study where the data from six industrial projects from a single organization were analyzed and three metrics regarding the requirement quality, rework effort, and testing were used to demonstrate the impact of different RE techniques. We also discuss the factors that are important for enabling the broader adoption of the proposed approach.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

requirements engineering; impact; evaluation; case study

• Wydawca: Wydawnictwa AGH
• Czasopismo: Computer Science
• Rocznik: 2020
• Tom: T. 21 (3)
• Strony: 273–298
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 43 poz., rys., tab.

Twórcy

autor

Jarzębowicz Aleksander

• Gdańsk University of Technology, Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications, and Informatics, Department of Software Engineering, Gdańsk, Poland

autor

Poniatowska Katarzyna

• Gdańsk University of Technology, Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications, and Informatics, Department of Software Engineering, Gdańsk, Poland

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