How Common are Controlled Experiments with Student Participants in Requirements Engineering?: A Systematic Mapping Study on the Use and Reporting of Graduate and Undergraduate Students in Requirements Engineering Experiments

Relevant Literature ◽

Current Status ◽

Future Research ◽

Mapping Study ◽

Systematic Mapping ◽

Current State ◽

Service Oriented ◽

Validation Research

The domain of Cloud and Service-oriented requirements engineering (SORE) focuses on modelling, specifying, and analysing requirements to enable software development in a service-oriented manner. Even though Cloud and SORE has received increasing attention over the past decade, there is no clear view of the current state of knowledge. Our goal is to gain insights into the current status of Cloud and SORE research published to date. To this end, we conducted a systematic mapping study to develop a map to classify relevant literature published between 2007 and 2018. Out of the 326 studies that were examined, we selected 24 studies as primary studies. The resulting map provides an overview of the existing work on Cloud and SORE and makes it possible to identify gaps and plan and position future research. Our findings suggest that Cloud and SORE as a research context needs specific attention. More evaluation and validation research is needed to better understand the implementation and impact of the various solutions (e.g. frameworks, tools) that are proposed in the Cloud and SORE context.

Requirements engineering education: a systematic mapping study

10.1007/s00766-013-0192-5 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 20 (2) ◽

pp. 119-138 ◽

Cited By ~ 51

Author(s):

Sofia Ouhbi ◽

Ali Idri ◽

José Luis Fernández-Alemán ◽

Ambrosio Toval

Keyword(s):

Engineering Education ◽

Mapping Study ◽

Systematic Mapping

Motivation and Engagement Factors of Undergraduate Students in Computing: A systematic mapping study

2018 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE) ◽

10.1109/fie.2018.8658384 ◽

2018 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Pablo Schoeffel ◽

Raul Sidnei Wazlawick ◽

Vinicius Faria Culmant Ramos

Keyword(s):

Undergraduate Students ◽

Mapping Study ◽

Systematic Mapping ◽

Motivation And Engagement ◽

Engagement Factors

The Impact of Controlled Vocabularies on Requirements Engineering Activities: A Systematic Mapping Study

Applied Sciences ◽

10.3390/app10217749 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 10 (21) ◽

pp. 7749

Author(s):

Arshad Ahmad ◽

José Luis Barros Justo ◽

Chong Feng ◽

Arif Ali Khan

Keyword(s):

Software Development ◽

Negative Impact ◽

Empirical Support ◽

Tool Support ◽

Mapping Study ◽

Systematic Mapping ◽

Controlled Vocabularies ◽

The Impact

Context: The use of controlled vocabularies (CVs) aims to increase the quality of the specifications of the software requirements, by producing well-written documentation to reduce both ambiguities and complexity. Many studies suggest that defects introduced at the requirements engineering (RE) phase have a negative impact, significantly higher than defects in the later stages of the software development lifecycle. However, the knowledge we have about the impact of using CVs, in specific RE activities, is very scarce. Objective: To identify and classify the type of CVs, and the impact they have on the requirements engineering phase of software development. Method: A systematic mapping study, collecting empirical evidence that is published up to July 2019. Results: This work identified 2348 papers published pertinent to CVs and RE, but only 90 primary published papers were chosen as relevant. The process of data extraction revealed that 79 studies reported the use of ontologies, whereas the remaining 11 were focused on taxonomies. The activities of RE with greater empirical support were those of specification (29 studies) and elicitation (28 studies). Seventeen different impacts of the CVs on the RE activities were classified and ranked, being the two most cited: guidance and understanding (38%), and automation and tool support (22%). Conclusions: The evolution of the last 10 years in the number of published papers shows that interest in the use of CVs remains high. The research community has a broad representation, distributed across the five continents. Most of the research focuses on the application of ontologies and taxonomies, whereas the use of thesauri and folksonomies is less reported. The evidence demonstrates the usefulness of the CVs in all RE activities, especially during elicitation and specification, helping developers understand, facilitating the automation process and identifying defects, conflicts and ambiguities in the requirements. Collaboration in research between academic and industrial contexts is low and should be promoted.