Requirements

Gender inclusivity in software is gaining attention from researchers and practitioners, with some seeing it as a nonfunctional requirement.

The cloud has several security and trust issues with the third-party provider.

Artificial Intelligence AI has a long tradition in software and requirements engineering RE.

As I'm sitting in the audience of a software development day, where Johan Sanneblad hiQ developer and business consultant raves about the possibilities of…

An interesting phenomenon occurred a couple of months ago when I elicited thoughts and feedback on meaningful requirements engineering RE metrics from a few…

For many years, I quoted a misstatement of this quotation from statistician and quality guru W.

The first easy Approach to Requirements Syntax EARS paper was published 10 years ago.1 For more information, see "Introduction to the Easy Approach to…

In the 1990s, it was recognized that requirements engineering RE laid the foundation for high-quality software.

Recent developments in agile methods at scale and continuous delivery have successfully removed major bottlenecks that have, so far, limited the speed at…

In recent years, we have witnessed profound changes in business and society.

How much diversity is permissible in requirements practices in a large corporation Can different project teams legitimately use different elicitation…

When determining requirements-engineering practices in a complex organization in which different groups might have different needs, the trick is to determine…

The RE40 seminar offered a diagnosis of the state of RE as it enters its 40s.

New department editor Sarah Gregory tells how her professional introduction to requirements engineering both informs the work she does now and drives…

VTML Visual Trace Modeling Language empowers project stakeholders to issue useful queries.

Basic data-mining skills can be useful for processing domain documents early during requirements engineering.

A proposed approach injects value-thinking into feature prioritization, using story mapping.

At the Ready-Set-Transfer panel at the 2014 IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, researchers presented their projects to a team of…

The challenges of eliciting requirements in global projects can be addressed through deliberate up-front planning processes that take into consideration,…

Imagine that you're building a software system that collects healthcare data and financial information from its users.

Quality goals for security, business agility, maintainability and other such attributes are often achieved through implementing best practices.

The Healthcare.gov debacle of 2013 leads many to wonder if a better understanding of the project's requirements could have lessened the impact of the failed…

A game-show environment let a panel competitively explore the use of various requirements modeling techniques for specifying a complex problem.

Architectural degradation is a common problem in most nontrivial, long-lived software systems.

Software-intensive projects are driven by quality concerns; however, these can be difficult to elicit and manage in early stages of a project.

The importance of discovering and understanding stakeholders' needs and delivering quality products that meet those needs is timeless.

Requirements work is really about problem solving.

Most people think of requirements as things to manipulate at the start of a project.

Ambiguity in requirements isn't always a bad thing. In the right hands, it can be positively useful.

Although people involved in requirements work agree that politics greatly affect their work, few can actually define what…

Many people make decisions based on emotion, then retrospectively justify these decisions with logic.

Reflection is a characteristic of good professional practice.

Few studies of actual requirements practices exist compared to the number of studies on how people program.

Requirements analysts need to ask the right questions repeatedly.

Requirements analysts need a new toolbox with both the right tools and the instructions to use them including agile development and user-centered design for…

In our design thinking module, with its focus on creativity and innovation, students seemed to consider the first two principles uncontroversial, even obvious.

One technological advance that will influence future requirements processes is ubiquitous computing.

Techniques for requirements acquisition must find new ways to gather information about brands and emotional responses to them.

Over the last decade, software development has seen a substantial growth in the use of agile techniques.

We often need to remind ourselves that, in the end, requirements projects are really all about people.

The team of international requirements engineering board enabled standardization in what a requirement analyst is and does,…

These requirements were often enough for the architects to design the application.

This paper deals with a requirement acquisition techniques card sorts.

An effective solution for exploiting Web services to improve requirements must support specifying both requirements and…

This column reviews progress in research and practice in requirements engineering over the past 25 years, looking back at early…

This article introduces improvisational theater, or improv, to support team-based innovation in requirements processes.

In software, we often talk about user requirements and system requirements.

In this column, IEEE Software aims to bring you the latest in requirements thinking.

Using scenarios can help you quantify your requirements.

One of the biggest challenges requirements analysts face is quantifying requirements.

Web services are operations that users access via the Internet through a well-defined interface independent of where the service is executed.

Mobile computing devices are everywhere.

Requirements research has produced two principal goal-modeling techniques-knowledge acquisition in automated specification KAOS and i.