A Quantitative Assessment of Requirements Engineering Publications -- 1963--2006
by: Alan Davis and Ann Hickey and Oscar Dieste and Natalia Juristo and Ana Moreno
In: Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality
(2007)
, p. 129--143.
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Abstract
Requirements engineering research has been conducted for over 40 years. It is important to recognize the plethora of results accumulated to date to: (a) improve researchers' understanding of the historical roots of our field in the real-world andthe problems that they are trying to solve, (b) expose researchers to the breadth and depth of solutions that have been proposed,(c) provide a synergistic basis for improving those solutions or building new ones to solve real-world problems facing theindustry today, and d) increase practitioner awareness of available solutions. A detailed meta-analysis of the requirementsengineering literature will provide an objective overview of the advances and current state of the discipline. This paperrepresents the first step in a planned multi-year analysis. It presents the results of a demographic analysis by date, type,outlet, author, and author affiliation for an existing database of over 4,000 requirements engineering publications.
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