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09/19/2023
Requirements Quality Research: a harmonized Theory, Evaluation, and Roadmap
High-quality requirements minimize the risk of propagating defects to la...
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09/14/2023
Identifying Concerns When Specifying Machine Learning-Enabled Systems: A Perspective-Based Approach
Engineering successful machine learning (ML)-enabled systems poses vario...
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06/15/2023
The Upper Bound of Information Diffusion in Code Review
Background: Code review, the discussion around a code change among human...
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06/09/2023
Preliminary Guideline for Creating Boundary Artefacts in Software Engineering
Context: Software development benefits from having Boundary Artefacts (B...
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06/09/2023
Connecting the Dots of Knowledge in Agile Software Development
This article discusses the importance of managing knowledge as a resourc...
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04/13/2023
Taxing Collaborative Software Engineering
The engineering of complex software systems is often the result of a hig...
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04/10/2023
Let's Stop Building at the Feet of Giants: Recovering unavailable Requirements Quality Artifacts
Requirements quality literature abounds with publications presenting art...
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12/13/2022
Automatic ESG Assessment of Companies by Mining and Evaluating Media Coverage Data: NLP Approach and Tool
Context: Sustainable corporate behavior is increasingly valued by societ...
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09/03/2022
Model-based Analysis and Specification of Functional Requirements and Tests for Complex Automotive Systems
The specification of requirements and tests are crucial activities in au...
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08/18/2022
Understanding the Implementation of Technical Measures in the Process of Data Privacy Compliance: A Qualitative Study
Modern privacy regulations, such as the General Data Protection Regulati...
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06/13/2022
A Live Extensible Ontology of Quality Factors for Textual Requirements
Quality factors like passive voice or sentence length are commonly used ...
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03/21/2022
Work-From-Home is Here to Stay: Call for Flexibility in Post-Pandemic Work Policies
In early 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic forced employees in tech companies ...
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02/02/2022
Automatic Creation of Acceptance Tests by Extracting Conditionals from Requirements: NLP Approach and Case Study
Acceptance testing is crucial to determine whether a system fulfills end...
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12/15/2021
Causality in Requirements Artifacts: Prevalence, Detection, and Impact
Background: Causal relations in natural language (NL) requirements conve...
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12/10/2021
Combining Design Thinking and Software Requirements Engineering to create Human-centered Software-intensive Systems
Effective Requirements Engineering is a crucial activity in softwareinte...
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10/14/2021
Only Time Will Tell: Modelling Communication for Information Diffusion in Software Engineering
In this manuscript, we present a novel model based on time-varying hyper...
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09/05/2021
How Do Practitioners Interpret Conditionals in Requirements?
Context: Conditional statements like "If A and B then C" are core elemen...
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08/30/2021
Vision for an Artefact-based Approach to Regulatory Requirements Engineering
Background: Nowadays, regulatory requirements engineering (regulatory RE...
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07/21/2021
Fine-Grained Causality Extraction From Natural Language Requirements Using Recursive Neural Tensor Networks
[Context:] Causal relations (e.g., If A, then B) are prevalent in functi...
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05/28/2021
A Study about the Knowledge and Use of Requirements Engineering Standards in Industry
Context: The use of standards is considered a vital part of any engineer...
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05/27/2021
Using Process Models to understand Security Standards
Many industrial software development processes today have to comply with...
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05/27/2021
Integration of Security Standards in DevOps Pipelines: An Industry Case Study
In the last decade, companies adopted DevOps as a fast path to deliver s...
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04/08/2021
The Human Side of Software Engineering: An Investigation of Challenges
There have been recent calls for research on the human side of software ...
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03/09/2021
Towards Artefact-based Requirements Engineering for Data-Centric Systems
Many modern software-intensive systems employ artificial intelligence / ...
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03/03/2021
On Understanding the Relation of Knowledge and Confidence to Requirements Quality
Context and Motivation: Software requirements are affected by the knowle...
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03/02/2021
Compliance Requirements in Large-Scale Software Development: An Industrial Case Study
Regulatory compliance is a well-studied area, including research on how ...
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02/10/2021
Enterprise-Driven Open Source Software: A Case Study on Security Automation
Agile and DevOps are widely adopted by the industry. Hence, integrating ...
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02/10/2021
Is Secure Coding Education in the Industry Needed? An Investigation Through a Large Scale Survey
The Department of Homeland Security in the United States estimates that ...
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01/26/2021
Automatic Detection of Causality in Requirement Artifacts: the CiRA Approach
System behavior is often expressed by causal relations in requirements (...
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01/19/2021
Asset Management in Software Engineering – What is it after all?
When developing and maintaining software-intensive products or services,...
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11/10/2020
How do Practitioners Perceive the Relevance of Requirements Engineering Research?
The relevance of Requirements Engineering (RE) research to practitioners...
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10/07/2020
Empirical Standards for Software Engineering Research
Empirical Standards are natural-language models of a scientific communit...
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09/03/2020
What Makes Agile Test Artifacts Useful? An Activity-Based Quality Model from a Practitioners' Perspective
Background: The artifacts used in Agile software testing and the reasons...
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09/02/2020
Understanding Peer Review of Software Engineering Papers
Peer review is a key activity intended to preserve the quality and integ...
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07/07/2020
Data-driven Risk Management for Requirements Engineering: An Automated Approach based on Bayesian Networks
Requirements Engineering (RE) is a means to reduce the risk of deliverin...
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02/07/2020
Views on Quality Requirements in Academia and Practice: Commonalities, Differences, and Context-Dependent Grey Areas
Context: Quality requirements (QRs) are a topic of constant discussions ...
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08/16/2019