The workshop programme and the workshop preparation kit will become available here.
Achieving high quality means to realise the needs of users and customers. These needs are elicited, negotiated, documented and validated during requirements engineering (RE). RE is therefore the most crucial phase of software development. The goals of RE are:
The goal of the REFSQ workshop series is to improve the understanding of the relations between requirements engineering and software quality. More precisely, REFSQ aims at having intensive discussion provoked by brief presentations about:
At the REFSQ'94, '95, '97 and '98 workshops - all arranged in connection with earlier CAiSE-conferences - researchers and practitioners from various disciplines presented approaches to improve the definition and implementation of quality requirements. The success of the earlier REFSQ's has encouraged us to provide a follow-up workshop - REFSQ'99 - as a stage for the discussion of quality-related problems in RE as they have developed over the last year. In particular, we like to encourage people from the requirements engineering, software engineering and information systems fields to present their approaches to higher software quality and to discuss how requirements engineering can contribute to it.
Relevant topics include, but are not limited to: classification of COTS requirements into domain-specific and standard ones, analysing the impact of requirements changes, support for change management, prioritising requirements for COTS, bundling requirements into COTS releases, configuration management for requirements, consideration of existing systems, and procurement of COTS.
REFSQ'99 also invites contributions from research and industry within other broad themes, such as:
Note that the themes and the lists of topics for each theme are not intended to be exhaustive.
Papers of three types can be submitted to the workshop:
The maximum length of a full paper is 6000 words.
The maximum length of a position paper is 2000 words.
An industrial problem statement may be about one page long, but more comprehensive statements will also be considered.
The workshop will be an interactive forum. Attendance will be limited to 30 people and all participants must have a paper accepted for the workshop. The workshop language is English.
The workshop will be organized in conjunction with the CAiSE*99 conference, and some earlier CAiSE conferences have required workshop participants to also attend the main conference.
The accepted papers will be made available electronically to all workshop participants before the workshop, so that presentations can be kept short. Each full-paper presentation will be summarized and commented on by all the other authors of full papers in the same session, acting as discussants. The discussants will be followed by a plenary discussion of the paper. In addition, there will be a plenary discussion at the end of each session.
At the end of the workshop there will be a general discussion, possibly including a brainstorming session about areas or topics of RE research that the participants perceive as important.
Send your full paper (max. 6000 words), position paper (max. 2000
words) or industrial problem statement (approx. 1 page) by e-mail
or via normal post before March 15th (arrival date) to:
Andreas L Opdahl
Email submission is encouraged, as the accepted papers
will later be distributed to the other participants
electronically.
Papers will be published in the REFSQ'99 workshop proceedings,
and the papers will be made available electronically for the
participants before the workshop.
We also intend to provide paper preprints at the beginning of
the workshop, but this is dependent on the funding we receive.
Department of Commerce (Bldg 39)
University of Queensland
St Lucia 7072 Qld
Australia
I M P O R T A N T D A T E S
Submission deadline: March 15th 1999 Acceptance notification: April 15th 1999 Confirmation of participation: April 30th 1999
Camera ready paper due: May 15th 1999
O R G A N I Z A T I O N
Andreas L. Opdahl
Klaus Pohl
Dep. of Inf. Science Informatik V University of Bergen RWTH Aachen N-5020 Bergen D-52074 Aachen Norway Germany +47-5558-4115 +49-241-80-21512 +47-5558-4107 +49-241-8888-321
Email:
Andreas.Opdahl@ifi.uib.no
pohl@informatik.rwth-aachen.de