A reflection on agile requirements engineering: solutions brought and challenges posed

Irum Inayat; Lauriane Moraes; Maia Daneva; Siti Salwah Salim

doi:10.1145/2764979.2764985

A reflection on agile requirements engineering: solutions brought and challenges posed

Irum Inayat, Lauriane Moraes, Maia Daneva, Siti Salwah Salim

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Abstract

The software development industry has rapidly accepted agile methods. Empirical studies suggest that due to their flexible and emergent nature, agile methods brought solutions to several chronic problems of traditional software development methods. One among the many is the acceptance of requirements changes at later stages of development. However, knowledge about the solutions that agile brought to requirements engineering (RE) is fragmented. Also, little is known about whether the agile philosophy, while introducing solutions to well-known RE problems from the past, has unintentionally opened new challenges. This paper offers a reflection on this matter. Based on the results of our recently published systematic review on agile RE, we reflect on the differences of ‘traditional’ and agile RE and the practices adopted by the latter, on the solutions and challenges of agile RE, and on some implications that agile RE might have posed for research and practice.

Original language	Undefined
Title of host publication	1st International Workshop on Requirements Engineering in Agile Development (READ)
Editors	Maria Paasivaara
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	61-67
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-3409-9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2764979.2764985
Publication status	Published - 20 May 2015
Event	1st International Workshop on Requirements Engineering in Agile Development, READ 2015: 1st International Workshop on Requirements Engineering in Agile Development (READ) - Helsinki, Finnland, Helsinki, Finland Duration: 25 May 2015 → 25 May 2015 Conference number: 1

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Name
Publisher	ACM

Workshop

Workshop	1st International Workshop on Requirements Engineering in Agile Development, READ 2015
Abbreviated title	READ
Country/Territory	Finland
City	Helsinki
Period	25/05/15 → 25/05/15
Other	25 May 2015

Keywords

EWI-26928
Requirements Engineering
Requirements Engineering Practices
Traditional Requirements Engineering
METIS-316880
IR-100177
Agile Requirements Engineering
Agile Requirements Engineering Challenges
Agile Software Development

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Inayat, I, Moraes, L, Daneva, M & Salim, SS 2015, A reflection on agile requirements engineering: solutions brought and challenges posed. in M Paasivaara (ed.), 1st International Workshop on Requirements Engineering in Agile Development (READ). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, pp. 61-67, 1st International Workshop on Requirements Engineering in Agile Development, READ 2015, Helsinki, Finland, 25/05/15. https://doi.org/10.1145/2764979.2764985

A reflection on agile requirements engineering: solutions brought and challenges posed. / Inayat, Irum; Moraes, Lauriane; Daneva, Maia et al.
1st International Workshop on Requirements Engineering in Agile Development (READ). ed. / Maria Paasivaara. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, 2015. p. 61-67.

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