10.18419/opus-3586
Méndez Fernández, Daniel
Wagner, Stefan
A case study on artefact-based RE improvement in practice
Universität Stuttgart
2015
Requirements engineering
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Prozessverbesserung , Fallstudie
Process Improvement , Case Study
Universität Stuttgart
Universität Stuttgart
2015-09-22
2016-03-31
2015-09-22
2016-03-31
2015
en
conferenceObject
44580923X
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:93-opus-102508
http://elib.uni-stuttgart.de/handle/11682/3603
Background: Most requirements engineering (RE) process improvement approaches are solution-driven and activity-based. They focus on the assessment of the RE of a company against an external norm of best practices. A consequence is that practitioners often have to rely on an improvement approach that skips a profound problem analysis and that results in an RE approach that might be alien to the organisational needs. Objective: In recent years, we have developed an RE improvement approach (called ArtREPI ) that guides a holistic RE improvement against individual goals of a company putting primary attention to the quality of the artefacts. In this paper, we aim at exploring ArtREPI’s benefits and limitations. Method: We contribute an industrial evaluation of ArtREPI by relying on a case study research. Results: Our results suggest that ArtREPI is well-suited for the establishment of an RE that reflects a specific organisational culture but to some extent at the cost of efficiency resulting from intensive discussions on a terminology that suits all involved stakeholders. Conclusions: Our results reveal first benefits and limitations, but we can also conclude the need of longitudinal and independent investigations for which we herewith lay the foundation.