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Failure in Risk Management

Welcome to the proceedings of the 22nd edition of REFSQ: the International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering – Foundation for Software Quality!

Requirements engineering (RE) has been recognized as a critical factor that impacts the quality of software, systems, and services. Since the term “requirements engineering” was coined, the community of practitioners and researchers has been working tirelessly on the identification, characterization, and evaluation of the multifaceted relationships between aspects of requirements processes, artifacts, and methods and aspects of software quality. The REFSQ working conference series has been well established as Europe’s premier meeting place in RE and as one of the leading international forums dedicated to the conversation on RE and its many relationships to quality.

Requirements engineering: foundation for software quality

[Context/motivation] Game development is characterized by a high level of creativity when compared to other fields of software development. Games cover a multitude of themes and genres, and represent a heterogeneous group of different products with varying requirements and business goals. [Question/problem] Requirements engineering (RE) should be relevant to game development, but is this true and if it is, how does game industry apply RE in practice? [Principal ideas/Results] We interviewed 27 software professionals in seven organizations to understand how requirements engineering is applied in game developing organizations. The results suggest that in game development business practicalities and drive for “fun” dominate the areas associated with requirements engineering. Additionally, game development organizations apply approaches and methods that are comparable to requirements engineering and requirement management, but do not consciously apply common RE practices. [Contribution] This paper extends our understanding of requirements engineering in video game development and contributes to the requirements engineering body of knowledge.

Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality

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Piotr Smoczyński

Papers

How to do it with sticky notes: a method for exploring expert knowledge to prepare guidelines for practice in railway vehicle maintenance