Tutorials

Call for Tutorial Proposals

Requirements elicitation, analysis, documentation, verification, and validation

Requirements management, traceability, viewpoints, prioritization, and negotiation

Evolution of requirements over time and across product families

Requirements specification languages, methods, processes, and tools

Prototyping, simulation, visualization, and animation of requirements

Relating requirements to business goals, architecture, design, implementation, and testing

Social, cultural, global, personal, and cognitive factors

Domain-specific problems, experiences, and solutions

Managing requirements-related complexity (e.g., problem complexity, solution complexity, organizational complexity, etc.)

Requirements engineering as part of agile development processes

Requirements engineering for service-oriented and cloud/fog computing systems

Requirements related to safety, reliability, security, privacy and digital forensics

Requirements engineering for Big Data / Machine-Learning / AI systems

Data mining for requirements engineering

Requirements engineering for sustainability

Distributed requirements engineering

Tutorial Proposal Evaluation Criteria

Title and Abstract:
The abstract should be between 140 and 250 words. If the proposal is accepted, the title and abstract will appear in advertisements and on the conference website.

Motivation and Objectives:
2-3 sentences describing the motivation for why this topic is relevant to the main conference. If your tutorial has particular applicability to practitioners from industry, describe this relevance in another 2-3 sentences. If your tutorial is accepted, then this description will be used as early publicity for the tutorial.

Duration:
Full-day (6-hour) or half-day (3-hour).

Outline of Topics:
Envision topics (e.g., in the form of a table of contents of the tutorial) Please indicate the number and type of interactive activities (such as exercises) for tutorial attendees and motivation of why such activities have been chosen.

Target Audience:
What type of background should the tutorial attendees have? What is the envisioned number of attendees desired for the tutorial (minimum and maximum)?

Tutorial History:
Have you offered this tutorial before? If so, please provide a history of the venues, dates, and approximate attendance numbers.

Presenters’ Bios:
Provide the name and a brief (2-3 sentence) biography for each of the tutorial presenters that highlights their qualifications with respect to the tutorial.

Publicity:
Plans for promoting the tutorial and attracting participants.

Appendix:
Provide five to ten sample slides from the tutorial.

Tutorial proposals submitted to RE 2022 must follow the the IEEE formatting guidelines (Tutorial Proposal Word Template)

Tutorial 1: Writing Effective Requirements

Presenter: Michael C. Panis (Teradyne, Inc.)

Abstract: even organizations that apply requirements engineering processes do not always provide the necessary training to employees so that they can clearly communicate requirements. This tutorial focuses on some of the techniques and skills necessary to ensure written requirements will be interpreted as intended.

Duration: 5 hours

Date: Tuesday, August 16, 2022 (full-day)

Tutorial 2: NLP for RE

Presenters: Gouri Deshpande (University of Calgary) and Mariana Bento (University of Calgary)

Abstract: the NLP for RE tutorial aims to provide the basics of how NLP (Natural Language Processing) could be used to process data for automation. It considers various instances that could be used to get started with applied NLP inclusive of data gathering, preprocessing, modeling and evaluation. We teach you how to apply various NLP techniques to a data set you bring with you or example systems we have as a backup. The take-aways from the tutorial are 1) How to gather data from public repositories such as utilizing REST-API’s, 2) Pre-processing requirements utilizing various NLP techniques 3) Develop a classification ML model for requirement dependencies.

Duration: 3 hours

Date: This tutorial is asynchronous and flexible. Gouri will organize a live QA on Monday, August 15, 2022 9.00pm to midnight, Melbourne time (UTC +10).

Tutorial 3: Requirements Elicitation Interviews: a Hands-on Tutorial with the SaPeer Method

Presenters: Alessio Ferrari (ISTI CNR), Paola Spoletini (Kennesaw State University), Muneera Bano (Deakin University) and Didar Zowghi (CSIRO’s Data61)

Abstract: Requirements elicitation interviews are the most commonly used elicitation technique. Thus, they are a fundamental pillar for the quality of software, since misunderstandings and omissions in this phase could be transferred to the requirements specification, the design, and even the final product, before being detected. Given the importance of elicitation interviews, approaches have been proposed to improve their quality. One of the approaches, called SaPeer (Self-Assessment and Peer Review), argues on the importance of reviewing requirements elicitation interviews for mistakes, as done for other requirements artefacts. In this tutorial, participants will learn the SaPeer method, and how to apply it for teaching interviews to students. Furthermore, they will learn how to conduct requirements elicitation interviews, and the typical mistakes to avoid. They will have the possibility to experience a requirements elicitation interview themselves, and assess the quality of their own interview. The tutorial is oriented to young researchers who want to learn the art of interviewing, and to educators, who will learn an effective method to teach this art.

Duration: 1 hour and 30 minutes

Date: Monday, August 15, 2002, 7pm to 9.20pm, Melbourne time (UTC +10)