A quantitative assessment of requirements engineering publications-1963-2006

  • Authors:

  • Alan Davis;Ann Hickey;Oscar Dieste;Natalia Juristo;Ana Moreno

  • Affiliations:

  • U. of Colorado at Colorado Springs, College of Business, Colorado Springs, CO;U. of Colorado at Colorado Springs, College of Business, Colorado Springs, CO;Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Facultad de Informáática, Madrid, Spain;Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Facultad de Informáática, Madrid, Spain;Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Facultad de Informáática, Madrid, Spain

  • Venue:
  • REFSQ'07 Proceedings of the 13th international working conference on Requirements engineering: foundation for software quality
  • Year:
  • 2007

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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 and the 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 the industry today, and d) increase practitioner awareness of available solutions. A detailed meta-analysis of the requirements engineering literature will provide an objective overview of the advances and current state of the discipline. This paper represents 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.