Requirements Engineering

Competency Leader

Requirements engineering is an established research area of Lero researchers for many years - the IEEE International Symposium on Requirements Engineering was held in Limerick in 1999, and current Lero researchers have chaired the conference programme on two further occasions since (in 2001 and 2009). Lero's research in RE covers the development of novel techniques for the elicitation and analysis of requirements, as well as research that relates requirements to other processes and artefacts in the software development process. Areas of particular research strength include:

Analysing natural language requirements
Formal specification and analysis of requirements
Managing inconsistency and evolution of requirements
Relating requirements and design
Managing quality requirements, including safety, security, privacy and usability requirements
Modeling, analysing and enforcing requirements for adaptive systems.

B Nuseibeh and S. Easterbrook, Requirements Engineering: A Roadmap , In Future of Software Engineering, Proceedings of International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE-2000), 4-11 June 2000, Limerick, Ireland, ACM Press.

B. H. Cheng and J. M. Atlee, Research Directions in Requirements Engineering. In 2007 Future of Software Engineering, Proceedings of International Conference on Software Engineering |(ICSE 2007), 23-25 May 2007, Minneapolis, USA, IEEE CS Press.