Thinking objectively: software engineering in the small
Communications of the ACM
REDEST - 14 Best Practice SME Experiments with Innovative Requirements Gathering Techniques
RE '02 Proceedings of the 10th Anniversary IEEE Joint International Conference on Requirements Engineering
Software process improvement in small and medium software enterprises: a systematic review
Software Quality Control
Micro-business behavior patterns associated with components in a requirements approach
Proceedings of the Second Edition of the International Workshop on Experiences and Empirical Studies in Software Modelling
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[Context and motivation] Almost worldwide the software industry mainly consists of small and medium software enterprises. From a requirements engineering perspective these companies are poorly researched. [Problem] Though RE research is discovering SMEs as an interesting field, it is difficult to categorize and distinguish these companies sufficiently. This leads to a) weakly classified results of observational studies as well as field studies and empirical research and b) insufficient mappings between methodical improvements and the companies they can be applied to. Therefore, it is hard for researchers and enterprises to adopt RE state of the art to an enterprises environment. [Principal ideas] After defining the problem, initial ideas for attributes classifying SMEs are presented and a way for improving and clustering these attributes is shown. [Contribution] This paper raises an important problem statement for RE research and shows an initial way towards solving this problem.