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Patterns of Requirements Clarification in Software Projects For ages, requirements engineering research focused on creating good documentation. This focus seems to contradict observations that can be...
View ArticleMSR’12 Summary
This is a summary of my impressions during the 9th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories. Note that I focus on sharing my opinions and feelings and that these depend on my personal...
View ArticleICSE’12 Summary
This is a summary on my ICSE experience this year. It is based on my personal notes and pictures I took during the conference. Note that I focus on sharing my opinions and feelings and that these...
View ArticleRSSE’12 Summary
The Third International Workshop on Recommendation Systems for Software Engineering was one of the most exciting events collocated with ICSE’12 – at least from my personal experience. I liked the...
View ArticleSecReq: Security Requirements Elicitation
When I started my PhD, my goal was to help people write better requirements documents. SecReq [1-3] is one of the projects that allowed me to apply my expertise and the concepts I developed during my...
View ArticlePlanning for next show: RE’12
Last week I booked my flight and hotel for RE conference in Chicago. Apparently, there is lots of interest in the conference: Most recommended hotels are already booked out. I guess this indicates that...
View ArticlePanel on Empirical Requirements Engineering, EmpiRE@RE’12
Yesterday, I participated in the workshop on empirical requirements engineering. My notes on the talks will follow shortly, but I want to highlight the excellent panel that concluded the workshop. The...
View ArticleV:Issue:lizer: Exploring Clarification in Online Communication Over Time
In this post, I describe the V:Issue:lizer tool (the transcription of the video follows below). V:issue:lizer supports managers in their decision making process by analyzing analyze stakeholder...
View ArticleRequirements Engineering & Project Management
In this blog post I want to discuss one of my favourite side projects during my PhD. In fact, I started to work on this topic in the German Special Interest Group Requirements Engineering and Project...
View ArticleHow can clarification patterns help developing software?
One of the most intense and enjoyable events last year was the Ready-set-transfer panel (or: show) at Requirements Engineering Conference. I had the pleasure to present my work on the V:issue:lizer and...
View Article(Semi-)automatic requirements categorization
Paper on (semi-)automatic requirements categorization accepted by REFSQ: In this joint work with Daniel Ott we investigated how to support a team of engineers in categorizing requirements efficiently...
View ArticleTechnical Dependency Challenges in Large-Scale Agile Software Development
Paper on Technical Dependency Challenges in Large-Scale Agile Software Development was accepted by XP 2014 conference in Rome. In this joint work with Ericsson AB, we discovered five main challenges...
View ArticleRequirements Engineering and Software Ecosystems: Preprints for RE’14
Today, RE conference in Karlskrona is starting with a great set of excellent workshops and tutorials. For me and my research, the RE is the most important conference. Therefore, I am extremely happy to...
View ArticlePatterns of Continuous Requirements Clarification
I am extremely happy that Springer’s Requirements Engineering Journal has published our systematic analysis of requirements clarification patterns by which we extend our previous work on clarification...
View ArticleTowards Enabling Cross-Organizational Modeling in Automotive Ecosystems
This summer, I visited Canada as an international collaborator of NECSIS (Network for the Engineering of Complex Software-Intensive Systems for Automotive Systems) with the goal to identify synergies...
View ArticleSupporting Requirements Feedback Flows in Iterative System Development
Complex, inter-connected systems make it hard to do upfront requirements analysis, as many requirements only surface when the system is used in its intended context. Does this mean that engineers...
View ArticleSurvey on daily pains with requirements
What are your daily pains with requirements? A survey on problems with Requirements Engineering in the automotive domain We, a group of researchers from Chalmers | University of Gothenburg in Sweden,...
View ArticleHow does the AUTOSAR Ecosystem Impact Requirement Engineering?
AUTOSAR aims at facilitating reuse of standardized software components in automotive software development. For this, it defines three layers: the application components (with standardized interfaces...
View ArticleScaling up the Planning Game
Our paper on Scaling up the Planning Game: Collaboration Challenges in Large-Scale Agile Product Development has been accepted at XP conference 2016 in Edinburgh. In this joint work of Felix Evbota,...
View ArticleHerding Cats: Release Management in an Open Collaboration Ecosystem
Next week we will present our work on Release Engineering in the GNOME ecosystem at OSS conference in Gothenburg. This is joint work driven by Germán Poo-Caamaño, in collaboration with Leif Singer and...
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