Industrial practices on requirements reuse: An interview-based study
| Autor: | Carme Quer, Xavier Franch, Cristina Palomares |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament d'Enginyeria de Serveis i Sistemes d'Informació, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. inSSIDE - integrated Software, Service, Information and Data Engineering |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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050101 languages & linguistics
Computer science Process (engineering) media_common.quotation_subject Informàtica::Enginyeria del software [Àrees temàtiques de la UPC] Context (language use) 02 engineering and technology Requirements elicitation Computer software -- Quality control Programari -- Control de qualitat Reuse Domain (software engineering) 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Enginyeria de requisits 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Quality (business) Software requirements Interview-based study Survey media_common Requirements reuse Requirements documentation Requirements engineering 05 social sciences Engineering management 020201 artificial intelligence & image processing |
| Zdroj: | UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality ISBN: 9783030444280 REFSQ |
| Popis: | [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. This work has been partially funded by the Horizon 2020 project OpenReq, which is supported by the European Union under the Grant Nr. 732463. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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