Requirements quality research: a harmonized theory, evaluation, and roadmap
High-quality requirements minimize the risk of propagating defects to later stages of the software development life cycle. Achieving a sufficient level of quality is a major goal of requirements engineering. This requires a clear definition and understanding of requirements quality. Though recent publications make an effort at disentangling the complex concept of quality, the requirements quality research community lacks identity and clear structure which guides advances and puts new findings into an holistic perspective. In this research commentary, we contribute (1) a harmonized requirements quality theory organizing its core concepts, (2) an evaluation of the current state of requirements quality research, and (3) a research roadmap to guide advancements in the field. We show that requirements quality research focuses on normative rules and mostly fails to connect requirements quality to its impact on subsequent software development activities, impeding the relevance of the research. Adherence to the proposed requirements quality theory and following the outlined roadmap will be a step toward amending this gap.
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10:45 - 12:15 | Requirements QualityRE@Next! Papers / Journal-First at V101 Chair(s): Martin Glinz University of Zurich | ||
10:45 30mPaper | Requirements quality research: a harmonized theory, evaluation, and roadmap Journal-First Julian Frattini Blekinge Institute of Technology, Lloyd Montgomery University of Hamburg, Germany, Jannik Fischbach Netlight GmbH / fortiss GmbH, Daniel Mendez Blekinge Institute of Technology and fortiss, Davide Fucci Blekinge Institute of Technology, Michael Unterkalmsteiner Blekinge Institute of Technology Link to publication DOI Media Attached | ||
11:15 30mPaper | Leveraging LLMs for the Quality Assurance of Software Requirements RE@Next! Papers Sebastian Lubos Graz University of Technology, Alexander Felfernig Graz University of Technology, Trang Tran Graz University of Technology, Damian Garber , Merfat El Mansi , Seda Polat Erdeniz , Viet-Man Le Graz University of Technology File Attached | ||
11:45 30mPaper | Measuring the Fitness-for-Purpose of Requirements: An initial Model of Activities and Attributes RE@Next! Papers Julian Frattini Blekinge Institute of Technology, Jannik Fischbach Netlight GmbH / fortiss GmbH, Davide Fucci Blekinge Institute of Technology, Michael Unterkalmsteiner Blekinge Institute of Technology, Daniel Mendez Blekinge Institute of Technology and fortiss Pre-print Media Attached |