Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality

1. Front Matter

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2. Keynote

   1. Delivering Requirements Research into Practice: A Keynote to the REFSQ’2011 Conference

      • Neil Maiden

      Pages 1-3

3. Session 1: Security and Sustainability

   1. Supporting Requirements Engineers in Recognising Security Issues

      • Eric Knauss, Siv Houmb, Kurt Schneider, Shareeful Islam, Jan Jürjens

      Pages 4-18

   2. Discovering Sustainability Requirements: An Experience Report

      • Martin Mahaux, Patrick Heymans, Germain Saval

      Pages 19-33

4. Session 2: Process Improvement and Requirements in Context

   1. Requirements Engineering Process Improvement: An Industrial Case Study

      • Georgi A. Markov, Anne Hoffmann, Oliver Creighton

      Pages 34-47

   2. Requirements for a Nutrition Education Demonstrator

      • Ing Widya, Richard Bults, Rene de Wijk, Ben Loke, Nicole Koenderink, Ricardo Batista et al.

      Pages 48-53

   3. Scaling Up Requirements Engineering – Exploring the Challenges of Increasing Size and Complexity in Market-Driven Software Development

      • Krzysztof Wnuk, Björn Regnell, Brian Berenbach

      Pages 54-59

5. Session 3: Elicitation

   1. Towards a New Understanding of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises in Requirements Engineering Research

      • Thorsten Merten, Kim Lauenroth, Simone Bürsner

      Pages 60-65

   2. Research Preview: Supporting End-User Requirements Elicitation Using Product Line Variability Models

      • Deepak Dhungana, Norbert Seyff, Florian Graf

      Pages 66-71

   3. Interview Patterns for Requirements Elicitation

      • Lauri Ann Scheinholtz, Ilona Wilmont

      Pages 72-77

   4. A Heuristic Approach for Supporting Product Innovation in Requirements Engineering: A Controlled Experiment

      • Sascha El-Sharkawy, Klaus Schmid

      Pages 78-93

6. Session 4: Models

   1. Satisfying User Needs at the Right Time and in the Right Place: A Research Preview

      • Nauman A. Qureshi, Norbert Seyff, Anna Perini

      Pages 94-99

   2. Flexible Sketch-Based Requirements Modeling

      • Dustin Wüest, Martin Glinz

      Pages 100-105

   3. Use Cases versus Task Descriptions

      • Soren Lauesen, Mohammad A. Kuhail

      Pages 106-120

7. Session 5: Services

   1. E-Service Requirements from a Consumer-Process Perspective

      • Martin Henkel, Erik Perjons

      Pages 121-135

   2. Is It Beneficial to Match Reusable Services Earlier?

      • Sebastian Adam, Oezguer Uenalan, Norman Riegel

      Pages 136-150

8. Session 6: Embedded and Real-Time Systems

   1. Requirements Engineering for Embedded Systems: An Investigation of Industry Needs

      • Ernst Sikora, Bastian Tenbergen, Klaus Pohl

      Pages 151-165

   2. Applying Restricted English Grammar on Automotive Requirements—Does it Work? A Case Study

      • Amalinda Post, Igor Menzel, Andreas Podelski

      Pages 166-180

9. Session 7: Prioritization and Traceability

   1. Agile Requirements Prioritization: What Happens in Practice and What Is Described in Literature

      • Zornitza Bakalova, Maya Daneva, Andrea Herrmann, Roel Wieringa

      Pages 181-195

   2. Mining Requirements Links

      • Vincenzo Gervasi, Didar Zowghi

      Pages 196-201

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality, REFSQ 2011, held in Essen, Germany, in March 2011. The 10 revised full papers and the 9 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 59 submissions. The papers are organized in seven topical sections on security and sustainability; process improvement and requirements in context; elicitation; models; services; embedded and real-time systems; and prioritization and traceability.

• business process management
• formal methods
• requirements modeling
• secure software systems
• software process
• software reuse

• Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada

  Daniel Berry

• Department ESSI - UPC, UPC-Campus Nord, Barcelona, Spain

  Xavier Franch

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