1. How do practitioners perceive the relevance of Requirements Engineering research?: an ongoing study
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Marc Oriol, Andreas Vogelsang, Daniel Méndez Fernández, Xavier Franch, Thomas Zimmermann, Rogardt Heldal, Guilherme Horta Travassos, Oscar Dieste, Jeffrey C. Carver, Eric Knauss, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament d'Enginyeria de Serveis i Sistemes d'Informació, and Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. inSSIDE - integrated Software, Service, Information and Data Engineering
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FOS: Computer and information sciences ,Engineering ,Knowledge management ,Informàtica::Enginyeria del software [Àrees temàtiques de la UPC] ,Sample (statistics) ,02 engineering and technology ,Computer-assisted web interviewing ,Computer Science - Software Engineering ,Empirical research ,020204 information systems ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,Enginyeria de requisits ,Relevance (information retrieval) ,Survey ,Protocol (science) ,Informática ,Requirements engineering ,business.industry ,020207 software engineering ,Survey research ,Online questionnaire ,Empirical study ,Software Engineering (cs.SE) ,Engineering ethics ,ddc:004 ,business - Abstract
The relevance of Requirements Engineering (RE) research to practitioners is a prerequisite for problem-driven research in the area and key for a long-term dissemination of research results to everyday practice. To better understand how industry practitioners perceive the practical relevance of RE research, we have initiated the RE-Pract project, an international collaboration conducting an empirical study. This project opts for a replication of previous work done in two different domains and relies on survey research. To this end, we have designed a survey to be sent to several hundred industry practitioners at various companies around the world and ask them to rate their perceived practical relevance of the research described in a sample of 418 RE papers published between 2010 and 2015 at the RE, ICSE, FSE, ESEC/FSE, ESEM and REFSQ conferences. In this paper, we summarise our research protocol and present the current status of our study and the planned future steps., Accepted for the 25th International Requirements Engineering Conference, 2017
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- 2017