Delivering requirements research into practice: A keynote to the refsq'2011 conference

Abstract

Requirements research over the last 25 years has delivered numerous methods, techniques and tools. These methods, techniques and tools have been reported in requirements and software engineering journals and conferences, often with small-scale evaluations based on experiments and controlled studies. Alas few of these methods, techniques and tools have been applied to large-scale requirements problems or transferred to widespread requirements practice. This keynote reviews the challenges that researchers face to apply research solutions to requirements practices. It demonstrates how some of these challenges have been overcome with presentations of cases that show the application of requirements research on large-scale industrial projects, and reflect on how these successes were achieved. The keynote ends with proposals to deliver more requirements research into practice. © 2011 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.