Figure out the current software requirements engineering - What practitioners expect to requirements engineering?

Abstract

This research aims to grasp and describe what Requirements Engineering(RE) covers, what RE tries to solve and what should RE be in the future. For these purposes, the authors did the literature survey and interviews with the authorities of RE and practitioners. The literature survey targeted over 700 papers and reports published from 2001 to 2005 in major RE conferences and journals in order to capture the influential papers and the trend of topics. The interviews targeted 13 authorities in RE academic field and 7 practitioners who have much knowledge and experiences of RE. One of the most important results of this study is the RE area quadrant which shows the overview of RE field. This quadrant supports to find out what topics of RE would be effective for practitioners' issue. Another important finding is the gap between practitioners' expectation and researchers work from the interviews to both sides. This research helps to know the current figure of RE and helps to know what RE should tackle with © 2007 IEEE.