[Background.] Empirical research in requirements engineering (RE) is a constantly evolving topic, with a growing number of publications. Several papers address this topic using literature reviews to provide a snapshot of its “current” state and evolution. However, these papers have never built on or updated earlier ones, resulting in overlap and redundancy. The underlying problem is the unavailability of data from earlier works. Researchers need technical infrastructures to conduct sustainable literature reviews. [Aims.] We examine the use of the Open Research Knowledge Graph (ORKG) as such an infrastructure to build and publish an initial Knowledge Graph of Empirical research in RE (KG-EmpiRE) whose data is openly available. Our long-term goal is to continuously maintain KG-EmpiRE with the research community to synthesize a comprehensive, up-to-date, and long-term available overview of the state and evolution of empirical research in RE. [Method.] We conduct a literature review using the ORKG to build and publish KG-EmpiRE which we evaluate against competency questions derived from a published vision of empirical research in software (requirements) engineering for 2020 - 2025. [Results.] From 570 papers of the IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (2000 - 2022), we extract and analyze data on the reported empirical research and answer 16 out of 77 competency questions. These answers show a positive development towards the vision, but also the need for future improvements. [Conclusions.] The ORKG is a ready-to-use and advanced infrastructure to organize data from literature reviews as knowledge graphs. The resulting knowledge graphs make the data openly available and maintainable by research communities, enabling sustainable literature reviews.

Fri 27 Oct

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13:30 - 15:00
6A - Requirements engineering and tool selectionESEM Technical Papers / ESEM Journal-First Papers at Rhythms 2
Chair(s): Ronnie de Souza Santos University of Calgary
13:30
20m
Full-paper
Divide and Conquer the EmpiRE: A Community-Maintainable Knowledge Graph of Empirical Research in Requirements Engineering
ESEM Technical Papers
Oliver Karras TIB - Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology, Felix Wernlein , Jil Klünder Leibniz Universität Hannover, Sören Auer TIB - Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology
Pre-print Media Attached
13:50
20m
Full-paper
What are Pros and Cons? Stance Detection and Summarization on Feature Request
ESEM Technical Papers
Yawen Wang Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Junjie Wang Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hongyu Zhang Chongqing University, Kairui Wang , Qing Wang Institute of Software at Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Media Attached
14:10
10m
Journal Early-Feedback
An Initial Theory to Understand and Manage Requirements Engineering Debt in Practice
ESEM Journal-First Papers
Julian Frattini Blekinge Institute of Technology, Davide Fucci Blekinge Institute of Technology, Daniel Mendez Blekinge Institute of Technology, Rodrigo Spinola Virginia Commonwealth University, Vladimir Mandić Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Nebojša Taušan INFORA Research Group doo, Muhammad Ovais Ahmad Karlstad University, Javier Gonzalez-Huerta Blekinge Institute of Technology
14:20
20m
Full-paper
A Comparative Study of Software Secrets Reporting by Secret Detection Tools
ESEM Technical Papers
Setu Kumar Basak North Carolina State University, Jamison Cox , Bradley Reaves North Carolina State University, Laurie Williams North Carolina State University
Pre-print
14:40
20m
Full-paper
How R Developers explain their Package Choice: A Survey
ESEM Technical Papers
Addi Malviya-Thakur Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA/ University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Audris Mockus The University of Tennessee, Russell Zaretzki , Bogdan Bichescu , Randy Bradley