Requirements engineering : foundation for software quality : 24th International Working Conference, REFSQ 2018, Utrecht, the Netherlands, March 19-22, 2018, Proceedings

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 24th International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering - Foundation for Software Quality, REFSQ 2018, held in Utrecht, The Netherlands, in March 2018. The 23 full and 2 invited talks papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 57 submissions. The papers were organized in topical sections named: RE in Industrial Practice; NLP in Theory and Practice; Empirical Insights into Traceability; Taming Ambiguity; Large-Scale RE; Quality Requirements; User and Job Stories; Requirements Alignment; RE Previews and Visions; Big Data; Mindmapping and Requirements Modeling. Front Matter ....Pages I-XVII Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Problem-Oriented Requirements in Practice – A Case Study (Soren Lauesen)....Pages 3-19 An Exploratory Study on How Internet of Things Developing Companies Handle User Experience Requirements (Johanna Bergman, Thomas Olsson, Isabelle Johansson, Kirsten Rassmus-Gröhn)....Pages 20-36 Front Matter ....Pages 37-37 Inferring Ontology Fragments from Semantic Role Typing of Lexical Variants (Mitra Bokaei Hosseini, Travis D. Breaux, Jianwei Niu)....Pages 39-56 Using Tools to Assist Identification of Non-requirements in Requirements Specifications – A Controlled Experiment (Jonas Paul Winkler, Andreas Vogelsang)....Pages 57-71 Front Matter ....Pages 73-73 Evaluation of Techniques to Detect Wrong Interaction Based Trace Links (Paul Hübner, Barbara Paech)....Pages 75-91 Second-Guessing in Tracing Tasks Considered Harmful? (Bhushan Chitre, Jane Huffman Hayes, Alexander Dekhtyar)....Pages 92-98 Front Matter ....Pages 99-99 Interview Review: An Empirical Study on Detecting Ambiguities in Requirements Elicitation Interviews (Paola Spoletini, Alessio Ferrari, Muneera Bano, Didar Zowghi, Stefania Gnesi)....Pages 101-118 Pinpointing Ambiguity and Incompleteness in Requirements Engineering via Information Visualization and NLP (Fabiano Dalpiaz, Ivor van der Schalk, Garm Lucassen)....Pages 119-135 Front Matter ....Pages 137-137 Quality Requirements Challenges in the Context of Large-Scale Distributed Agile: An Empirical Study (Wasim Alsaqaf, Maya Daneva, Roel Wieringa)....Pages 139-154 The Problem of Consolidating RE Practices at Scale: An Ethnographic Study (Rebekka Wohlrab, Patrizio Pelliccione, Eric Knauss, Sarah C. Gregory)....Pages 155-170 Front Matter ....Pages 171-171 QREME – Quality Requirements Management Model for Supporting Decision-Making (Thomas Olsson, Krzysztof Wnuk)....Pages 173-188 The Influence of Green Strategies Design onto Quality Requirements Prioritization (Nelly Condori Fernandez, Patricia Lago)....Pages 189-205 Front Matter ....Pages 207-207 On Modelers Ability to Build a Visual Diagram from a User Story Set: A Goal-Oriented Approach (Yves Wautelet, Mattijs Velghe, Samedi Heng, Stephan Poelmans, Manuel Kolp)....Pages 209-226 Jobs-to-be-Done Oriented Requirements Engineering: A Method for Defining Job Stories (Garm Lucassen, Maxim van de Keuken, Fabiano Dalpiaz, Sjaak Brinkkemper, Gijs Willem Sloof, Johan Schlingmann)....Pages 227-243 Front Matter ....Pages 245-245 Keeping Evolving Requirements and Acceptance Tests Aligned with Automatically Generated Guidance (Sofija Hotomski, Eya Ben Charrada, Martin Glinz)....Pages 247-264 Coexisting Graphical and Structured Textual Representations of Requirements: Insights and Suggestions (Martin Beckmann, Christian Reuter, Andreas Vogelsang)....Pages 265-280 Front Matter ....Pages 281-281 Security Requirements Elicitation from Engineering Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (Ana-Maria Ghiran, Robert Andrei Buchmann, Cristina-Claudia Osman)....Pages 283-289 On the Understanding of BDD Scenarios’ Quality: Preliminary Practitioners’ Opinions (Gabriel Oliveira, Sabrina Marczak)....Pages 290-296 Personal Recommendations in Requirements Engineering: The OpenReq Approach (Cristina Palomares, Xavier Franch, Davide Fucci)....Pages 297-304 Front Matter ....Pages 305-305 State of Requirements Engineering Research in the Context of Big Data Applications (Darlan Arruda, Nazim H. Madhavji)....Pages 307-323 Automatic User Preferences Elicitation: A Data-Driven Approach (Tong Li, Fan Zhang, Dan Wang)....Pages 324-331 Front Matter ....Pages 333-333 Streamlining Semantics from Requirements to Implementation Through Agile Mind Mapping Methods (Robert Andrei Buchmann, Ana-Maria Ghiran, Cristina-Claudia Osman, Dimitris Karagiannis)....Pages 335-351 A Persona-Based Modelling for Contextual Requirements (Genaína Nunes Rodrigues, Carlos Joel Tavares, Naiara Watanabe, Carina Alves, Raian Ali)....Pages 352-368 Back Matter ....Pages 369-369