TY - GEN
T1 - Requirements engineering practice and problems in agile projects
T2 - 20th Workshop em Engenharia de Requisitos, WER 2017 - 20th Requirements Engineering Workshop, WER 2017
AU - Wagner, Stefan
AU - Fernández, Daniel Méndez
AU - Felderer, Michael
AU - Kalinowski, Marcos
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Anais do WER 2017 - Workshop em Engenharia de Requisitos. All rights reserved.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Requirements engineering (RE) is considerably different in agile development than in more traditional development processes. Yet, there is little empirical knowledge on the state of the practice and contemporary problems in agile RE. As part of a bigger survey initiative (Naming the Pain in Requirements Engineering), we build an empirical basis on such aspects of agile RE. Based on the responses of representatives from 92 different organisations, we found that agile RE concentrates on free-text documentation of requirements elicited with a variety of techniques. Often, traces between requirements and code are explicitly managed and also software testing and RE are aligned. Furthermore, continuous improvement of RE is performed due to intrinsic motivation. Important experienced problems include unclear requirements and communication flaws. Overall, we found that most organisations conduct RE in a way we would expect and that agile RE is in several aspects not so different from RE in other development processes.
AB - Requirements engineering (RE) is considerably different in agile development than in more traditional development processes. Yet, there is little empirical knowledge on the state of the practice and contemporary problems in agile RE. As part of a bigger survey initiative (Naming the Pain in Requirements Engineering), we build an empirical basis on such aspects of agile RE. Based on the responses of representatives from 92 different organisations, we found that agile RE concentrates on free-text documentation of requirements elicited with a variety of techniques. Often, traces between requirements and code are explicitly managed and also software testing and RE are aligned. Furthermore, continuous improvement of RE is performed due to intrinsic motivation. Important experienced problems include unclear requirements and communication flaws. Overall, we found that most organisations conduct RE in a way we would expect and that agile RE is in several aspects not so different from RE in other development processes.
KW - Agile projects
KW - NaPiRE
KW - Requirements engineering
KW - Survey
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85089562693
T3 - Anais do WER 2017 - Workshop em Engenharia de Requisitos
BT - Anais do WER 2017 - Workshop em Engenharia de Requisitos
A2 - Brito Isabel, Sofia
A2 - de la Vara, Jose Luis
PB - PUC-Rio, Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro
Y2 - 22 May 2017 through 23 May 2017
ER -