REFSQ Workshops
The REFSQ 2010 programme is accompanied by a workshop track. Workshops are intended to facilitate the exchange of ideas and experiences between researchers and industry, and to stimulate discussions on new and emerging issues in line with the conference topics. Workshops may discuss novel and visionary ideas or may even be devoted to issues such as applications, standardization, and curriculum development.
All REFSQ workshops take place on Tuesday, 29th June, before the REFSQ main conference. The workshops will be hosted at paluno – The Ruhr Institute for Software Technology.
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The following four workshops will be held in conjunction with REFSQ 2010:
CreaRE – Creativity in Requirements Engineering
This workshop brings together requirements engineers from industry and researcher who are interested in discussing the role of creativity in requirements engineering and how and which creativity techniques can be applied to requirements engineering. The workshop is expected to be a forum for the interchange of experience and research results. It also aims at raising awareness in the RE community for the importance of creativity and creativity techniques.
More information can be found on the workshop website.
RePriCo – Requirements Prioritization for customer-oriented Software Development
The workshop serves as a platform for the presentation and discussion of new and innovative approaches to prioritization issues in requirements engineering. Topics can either carry out new research approaches with a fundamental theoretical background or best-practices from practitioners with a focus on customer-orientation.
A high rate of active participation and intense exchange of ideas and experiences shall encourage researchers as well as software-developers, requirements engineers or consultants to absorb new ideas and to carry them out into their daily work and research projects.
More information can be found on the workshop website.
RESC – RE in Small Companies
In the past RE research targeted mainly the needs of RE practice in the context of larger enterprises. However, Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) develop, customize and maintain a considerable part of software. Often, these companies are unable to apply RE methods and techniques without modifications. Besides, shortcomings in applying RE methods due to time constraints or limited resources may arise. It is the aim of this workshop to identify research teams in the RE community, who discuss the specific RE needs of SMEs. We know that “RE Researchers should work with practitioners [...], with other SE Researchers and Practitioners [… and] industrial organizations should provide (sanitized) industrial-strength project data to researchers” [1]. Consequently, this workshop is intended to bring researchers together with the RE practices and experience of SMEs whose businesses are software.
RE research has to intensify the investigation of RE practices in SMEs. Otherwise SMEs will have to continue their search for methodical orientation and dedicated tool support. Normally, the people responsible for requirements in SMEs are ambitious, but suffer from scarcity of resources. Their time for doing experiments and trying different methods is very limited. They need quick methodical improvement of requirements elicitation, documentation, communication and traceability as well as more continuity of requirements management through the whole software lifecycle. The RE has to adopt the flexibility which is often an essential part of their business.
In order to ensure early and iterative evaluation of emerging RE approaches and tool support, useful partnerships between SME practitioners working in various problem domains and researchers may arise from this workshop.
More information can be found on the workshop website.
PLREQ – Product Line Requirements Engineering and Quality
The workshop focuses on quality aspects in requirements engineering for software product lines. Traditional approaches for quality requirements and variability management do not fully address the problems associated with quality requirements during variability modeling, product instantiation and product line evolution. In the workshop, novel approaches, emerging ideas and tools as well as industrial experiences to deal with qualities are discussed. Furthermore, the workshop will provide an interactive environment between researchers and practitioners.
More information can be found on the workshop website.
