Process-Centered Requirements Engineering
Process-Centered Requirements Engineering
Recovering Traceability Links between Code and Documentation
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Systematic Requirements Recycling through Abstraction and Traceability
RE '02 Proceedings of the 10th Anniversary IEEE Joint International Conference on Requirements Engineering
DEXA '00 Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications
Metrics and Laws of Software Evolution - The Nineties View
METRICS '97 Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Software Metrics
Requirements interaction management
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Improving Software Comprehension through an Automated Dependency Tracer
IWPC '99 Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Program Comprehension
Software Change Impacts - An Evolving Perspective
ICSM '02 Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM'02)
An Industrial Survey of Requirements Interdependencies in Software Product Release Plannin
RE '01 Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Symposium on Requirements Engineering
QuaTrace: A Tool Environment for (Semi-) Automatic Impact Analysis Based on Traces
ICSM '03 Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance
Change Impact Analysis for Requirement Evolution using Use Case Maps
IWPSE '05 Proceedings of the Eighth International Workshop on Principles of Software Evolution
Advancing Candidate Link Generation for Requirements Tracing: The Study of Methods
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
IBM Systems Journal - Model-driven software development
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
On the Impact of Evolving Requirements-Architecture Dependencies: An Exploratory Study
CAiSE '08 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
On Creating Industry-Wide Reference Architectures
EDOC '08 Proceedings of the 2008 12th International IEEE Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference
Managing requirements inter-dependency for software product line derivation
Requirements Engineering
Quantitative Analysis for Requirements Evolution's Ripple-Effect
CAR '09 Proceedings of the 2009 International Asia Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics
Journal of Systems and Software
Concern tracing and change impact analysis: An exploratory study
EA '09 Proceedings of the 2009 ICSE Workshop on Aspect-Oriented Requirements Engineering and Architecture Design
Strong dependencies between software components
ESEM '09 Proceedings of the 2009 3rd International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement
Requirement-centric traceability for change impact analysis: a case study
ICSP'08 Proceedings of the Software process, 2008 international conference on Making globally distributed software development a success story
Scaling up software architecture evaluation processes
ICSP'08 Proceedings of the Software process, 2008 international conference on Making globally distributed software development a success story
A survey of traceability in requirements engineering and model-driven development
Software and Systems Modeling (SoSyM)
A business process-driven approach for requirements dependency analysis
BPM'12 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Business Process Management
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Context: The dependencies between individual requirements have an important influence on software engineering activities e.g., project planning, architecture design, and change impact analysis. Although dozens of requirement dependency types were suggested in the literature from different points of interest, there still lacks an evaluation of the applicability of these dependency types in requirements engineering. Objective: Understanding the effect of these requirement dependencies to software engineering activities is useful but not trivial. In this study, we aimed to first investigate whether the existing dependency types are useful in practise, in particular for change propagation analysis, and then suggest improvements for dependency classification and definition. Method: We conducted a case study that evaluated the usefulness and applicability of two well-known generic dependency models covering 25 dependency types. The case study was conducted in a real-world industry project with three participants who offered different perspectives. Results: Our initial evaluation found that there exist a number of overlapping and/or ambiguous dependency types among the current models; five dependency types are particularly useful in change propagation analysis; and practitioners with different backgrounds possess various viewpoints on change propagation. To improve the state-of-the-art, a new dependency model is proposed to tackle the problems identified from the case study and the related literature. The new model classifies dependencies into intrinsic and additional dependencies on the top level, and suggests nine dependency types with precise definitions as its initial set. Conclusions: Our case study provides insights into requirement dependencies and their effects on change propagation analysis for both research and practise. The resulting new dependency model needs further evaluation and improvement.