TY - GEN
T1 - Contemporary requirements challenges and issues
T2 - 34th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC 2019
AU - Chen, Feng
AU - Power, Norah
AU - Collins, J. J.
AU - Ishikawa, Fuyuki
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Requirements Engineering (RE) is regarded as key to software project success and has been researched and practiced for decades. With the growing maturity and complexity of software development, however, the contemporary RE environment has been changing so that the intertwining of requirements with implementation and organizational contexts has been observed and emphasized. What relevant RE challenges and issues exist in this contemporary RE environment merits investigation. This paper, therefore, reports an empirical study on the current requirements challenges and issues focusing on projects in enterprise software development environments that affect multiple (more than three) applications. Data were obtained by survey and interviews from a total of 26 practitioners in 11 organizations. Through analyzing the data, a collection of requirements challenges and issues were identified. The findings indicate that identifying the ramifications of changes and balancing the level of design and solutions in requirements are becoming important in contemporary RE for enterprise software development environment.
AB - Requirements Engineering (RE) is regarded as key to software project success and has been researched and practiced for decades. With the growing maturity and complexity of software development, however, the contemporary RE environment has been changing so that the intertwining of requirements with implementation and organizational contexts has been observed and emphasized. What relevant RE challenges and issues exist in this contemporary RE environment merits investigation. This paper, therefore, reports an empirical study on the current requirements challenges and issues focusing on projects in enterprise software development environments that affect multiple (more than three) applications. Data were obtained by survey and interviews from a total of 26 practitioners in 11 organizations. Through analyzing the data, a collection of requirements challenges and issues were identified. The findings indicate that identifying the ramifications of changes and balancing the level of design and solutions in requirements are becoming important in contemporary RE for enterprise software development environment.
KW - Empirical study
KW - Requirements challenges
KW - Requirements Engineering
KW - Requirements issues
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85065644545&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3297280.3297435
DO - 10.1145/3297280.3297435
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85065644545
SN - 9781450359337
T3 - Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
SP - 1592
EP - 1599
BT - Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 8 April 2019 through 12 April 2019
ER -