Industry needs and research directions in requirements engineering for embedded systems |
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Authors: | Ernst Sikora Bastian Tenbergen Klaus Pohl |
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Affiliation: | (1) Automotive Safety Technologies GmbH, Sachsstrasse 16, 85080 Gaimersheim, Germany;(2) paluno, The Ruhr Institute for Software Technology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Gerlingstrasse 16, 45127 Essen, Germany |
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Abstract: | The industry has a strong demand for sophisticated requirements engineering (RE) methods in order to manage the high complexity
of requirements specifications for software-intensive embedded systems and ensure a high requirements quality. RE methods
and techniques proposed by research are only slowly adopted by the industry. An important step to improve the adoption of
novel RE approaches is to gain a detailed understanding of the needs, expectations, and constraints that RE approaches must
satisfy. We have conducted an industrial study to gain an in-depth understanding of practitioners’ needs concerning RE research
and method development. The study involved qualitative interviews as well as quantitative data collection by means of questionnaires.
We report on the main results of our study related to five aspects of RE approaches: the use of requirements models, the support
for high system complexity, quality assurance for requirements, the transition between RE and architecture design, and the
interrelation of RE and safety engineering. Based on the results of the study, we draw conclusions for future RE research. |
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