IEEE Software
Software engineering (5th ed.)
Software engineering (5th ed.)
Requirements engineering: a roadmap
Proceedings of the Conference on The Future of Software Engineering
Requirements engineering in the year 00: a research perspective
Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on Software engineering
Requirements Engineering: A Good Practice Guide
Requirements Engineering: A Good Practice Guide
Requirements Engineering: The Emerging Wisdom
IEEE Software
How Software Process Improvement Helped Motorola
IEEE Software
A field study of requirements engineering practices in information systems development
RE '95 Proceedings of the Second IEEE International Symposium on Requirements Engineering
A maturity model for the implementation of software process improvement: an empirical study
Journal of Systems and Software - Special issue: The new context for software engineering education and training
Journal of Systems and Software
A measurement framework for assessing the maturity of requirements engineering process
Software Quality Control
Using UML stereotypes to support the requirement engineering: a case study
ICCSA'12 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Computational Science and Its Applications - Volume Part IV
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Requirements problems are widely acknowledged to have impact on the effectiveness of the software development process. In order to improve the requirements engineering (RE) process and to reduce requirements problems, Sommerville et al. [1] have developed a requirements maturity model. Literature shows that the measurement process, designed in this model, is very confused and can lead organizations to incorrect results. This is because the measurement process is ambiguous and no strategic and systematic approach is used to decide different scores for various RE practices. The objective of this paper is to propose a measurement instrument for Sommerville et al.'s model to effectively measure the maturity of the RE process. The main purpose of proposing this measurement instrument is to develop better ways to assist practitioners in effectively measuring the maturity of the RE process. This instrument provides a very practical structure with which to measure the maturity of the RE process. I have tested this instrument in one case study where only one category of RE process, i.e. ‘requirements elicitation' was used as an exemplar. The case study results show that the measurement instrument has potential to assist practitioners in effectively measuring the maturity of ‘requirements elicitation' category of the RE process. Thus, I recommend organizations trial this instrument for other categories of RE process in order to further evaluate its effectiveness in the domain of RE process.