TY - GEN
T1 - Towards Guidelines for Preventing Critical Requirements Engineering Problems
AU - Mafra, Priscilla
AU - Kalinowski, Marcos
AU - Fernandez, Daniel Mendez
AU - Felderer, Michael
AU - Wagner, Stefan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 IEEE.
PY - 2016/10/14
Y1 - 2016/10/14
N2 - [Context] Problems in Requirements Engineering (RE) can lead to serious consequences during the software development lifecycle. [Goal] The goal of this paper is to propose empirically-based guidelines that can be used by different types of organisations according to their size (small, medium or large) and process model (agile or plan-driven) to help them in preventing such problems. [Method] We analysed data from a survey on RE problems answered by 228 organisations in 10 different countries. [Results] We identified the most critical RE problems, their causes and mitigation actions, organizing this information by clusters of size and process model. Finally, we analysed the causes and mitigation actions of the critical problems of each cluster to get further insights into how to prevent them. [Conclusions] Based on our results, we suggest preliminary guidelines for preventing critical RE problems in response to context characteristics of the companies.
AB - [Context] Problems in Requirements Engineering (RE) can lead to serious consequences during the software development lifecycle. [Goal] The goal of this paper is to propose empirically-based guidelines that can be used by different types of organisations according to their size (small, medium or large) and process model (agile or plan-driven) to help them in preventing such problems. [Method] We analysed data from a survey on RE problems answered by 228 organisations in 10 different countries. [Results] We identified the most critical RE problems, their causes and mitigation actions, organizing this information by clusters of size and process model. Finally, we analysed the causes and mitigation actions of the critical problems of each cluster to get further insights into how to prevent them. [Conclusions] Based on our results, we suggest preliminary guidelines for preventing critical RE problems in response to context characteristics of the companies.
KW - Defect prevention
KW - Guidelines
KW - Problem prevention
KW - Requirements engineering
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85020729840&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/SEAA.2016.50
DO - 10.1109/SEAA.2016.50
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85020729840
T3 - Proceedings - 42nd Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications, SEAA 2016
SP - 25
EP - 29
BT - Proceedings - 42nd Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications, SEAA 2016
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 42nd Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications, SEAA 2016
Y2 - 31 August 2016 through 2 September 2016
ER -