Daniel Mendez, Stefan Wagner, Marcos Kalinowski, Maria Teresa Baldassarre

Abstract

During last year’s ISERN meeting, we conducted a thematic workshop to re-initiate our first globally family of distributed surveys on industrial requirements engineering (RE) practices and problems, called NaPiRE (Naming the Pain in Requirements Engineering). Out of this work, we have re-designed the questionnaire to focus on human factors, particularly related to communication. The overall goal is to contribute to our already existing theory on RE practices and problems that was developed in context of this initiative over the past 12 years under the umbrella of ISERN.

As for today, we completed the data collection and analysis of the past replication and plan to steer the data analysis. Details about the project can be taken from http://www.napire.org

Session Goal

The goal of this upcoming thematic workshop is to jointly

1. Discuss in the group of participants the first results from the current data collection and plan for the joint data analysis.

2. Plan and introduce further organisational structure

3. Bring in new researchers in participating in future replications

Given the complexity of the NaPiRE project, we plan to discuss this year current results, but also how to better organise the project with our globally distributed members. This includes, but is not limited to, the project architecture and the infrastructure used.

Development of the Session

To conduct the workshop in a systematic manner, we propose to:

1. Introduce the complete NaPiRE concept and report on the analysis results prepared by the organisers in advance

2. Form groups to work on the data analysis

3. Agree on a time schedule and project organisation based on a proposal brought in by the organisers

Expected Outcome and Plan for continuing the Work beyond ISERN session

The whole workshop is intended to strengthen the collaboration and plan the dissemination of the results after the ISERN session. We will continue to steer the family of surveys over the next years and to build a continuum in this project under the umbrella of ISERN whereby this workshop builds one consequent next step in this endeavour.

Resources needed to conduct the Session

The following resources for the workshop are considered to be sufficient:

• Beamer for introductory presentation

• Flipchart or white board

Expected Knowledge

Members who already conducted the RE survey in this year are expected to participate. Members not previously involved should read the information provided on the website http://www.napire.orgas well as the documents listed therein.