Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality: 19th International Working Conference, REFSQ 2013, Essen, Germany, April 8-11, 2013. Proceedings

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by  Maya Daneva

Joerg Doerr
Andreas L. Opdahl (Eds.)
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Preface
Requirements engineering (RE) is a central prerequisite for developing high-
quality software systems and services. The REFSQ — Requirements Engineer-
ing: Foundation for Software Quality — working conference series is well estab-
lished as one of the leading international fora for discussing RE and its many
relations to quality. The first REFSQ took place in 1994 and, since 2010, it has
been organized as a stand-alone event.
REFSQ conferenceshave a long traditionfor being highlystructured and in-
teractive.Eachsessionisorganizedtoprovokediscussionamongthepresentersof
papers,pre-assigneddiscussants,and all the other participants.For eachpaper,
timeisallocatedsothatthediscussionisatleastaslongasthepresentation.The
series also highlights requirements engineering in practice by bringing together
researchers,users, and practitioners in order to develop a better understanding
ofthe practiceofRE,to contributeto improvedRE practice,aswellasto share
knowledge and experiences.
This LNCS volume contains the papers that were accepted for presentation
atREFSQ2013 —the19thInternationalWorkingConferenceonRequirements
Engineering:Foundation for Software Quality — that took place in Essen, Ger-
many,during April8–11,2013.ForREFSQ2013,we choseInterdisciplinary RE
asthespecialtheme.InadditiontogeneralpapersonREandquality,weencour-
aged submissions that highlighted the interplay of RE with related disciplines
such as software architecture, quality assurance, user interface design, project
management, and agile software development.
TheCallforPapersattracted105submissionsfromauthorsinbothindustry
andacademiain29differentcountriesonallsixinhabitedcontinents.Afterelim-
inating bogus and clearly out-of-scope submissions, 82 papers were sent out for
reviewing, of which 35 were marked as belonging to the special theme Interdis-
ciplinary RE. Each of them was evaluated carefully by at least three reviewers,
before the online discussion phase, in which senior Program Committee mem-
bers acted as discussion drivers for the most critical papers. Eleven members
and two co-chairs also attended the Program Committee meeting in Essen on
January 11 to discuss the 45 most promising submissions in even greater de-
tail.TheProgramCommitteeselected28high-qualitypaperstobe presentedat
REFSQ 2013: 23 full papers and five short ones. Among the full papers, there
were three industrial experience reports and 20 regular research papers. Of the
shortpapers,onewasaproblemstatementandfourwereresearchpreviews.The
acceptance rate was thus 28% for long papers and 34% overall.
The resulting program from REFSQ’2013 was organized in the following
thematic sessions: RE & Architecture, Natural Language Requirements, RE &
Quality, Traceability, RE & Business/Goals, RE & Software Development, RE
in Practice, and Product Lines and Product Management. It thereby reflects
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how RE encompasses human and organizational issues in addition to technical
aspects when developing quality software systems and services.
The research program also featured a keynote by Jan Bosch, a professor at
Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden, with many years’
experience from industry. The theme of his talk was customer experimentation
anditsrelationtorequirementsengineering.Theconferencealsofollowed-upthe
positive experiences from earlier REFSQ conferences with a variety of activities
such as a practitioner/industrial track, an empirical track including a live ex-
periment and an empirical fair,a doctoralsymposium, and a poster forum with
posters both from the doctoral symposium and presenting other new research.
REFSQ 2013 was also associated with the following three workshops:
CreaRE — the Third Workshop on Creativity in Requirements Engineer-
ing, organized by Maya Daneva, Andrea Herrmann, Anne Hoffmann, and Kurt
Schneider; IWSPM13 — the 7th International Workshop on Software Product
Management, organized by Richard Berntsson Svensson, Inge van de Weerd,
and Krzysztof Wnuk; and RePriCo13 — the 4th International Workshop on
Requirements Prioritization and Communication, organizedby BenediktKrams
and Sixten Schockert.
We thank the members of the international Program Committee and their
sub-reviewers for carefully reviewing the submitted papers. We devote special
thanks to those committe members who travelled to attend the ProgramCom-
mittee meeting in Essen. Your dedicated work was vital for putting together a
high-quality working conference. We also thank the REFSQ Steering Commit-
tee, and the other REFSQ 2013 Chairs (listed on the next page) for all their
useful input to the organization process. We also thank the organizers of the
associated workshops (listed above).
Last, but not least, we would like to thank PALUNO at the University of
Duisbug-Essen for organizing REFSQ 2013, in particular General Chair Klaus
PohlandOrganizersRoxanaKlippertandTobiasKaufmann,whodealtwithall
practical matters quickly and efficiently, as well as Vanessa Stricker, who is no
longer formally involved in the organization after several years of service, but
who nevertheless provided prompt and useful advice whenever needed.
AlongwiththeREFSQ2013organizerswealsowanttothanktheconference
sponsors, whose logos are shown on a later page!
February 2013 Joerg Doerr
Andreas L. Opdahl
Conference Organization
General Chair
Klaus Pohl University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Program Co-chairs
Joerg Doerr Fraunhofer IESE, Germany
Andreas L. Opdahl University of Bergen, Norway
Organizing Team
Tobias Kaufmann University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Stella Roxana Klippert University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Industry Track Co-chairs
Kai Petersen Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
Thorsten Weyer University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Workshop Co-chairs
Raul Mazo University of Paris 1 — Sorbonne, France
Camille Salinesi University of Paris 1 — Sorbonne, France
Doctoral Symposium Co-chairs
Oscar Pastor Polytechnical University of Valencia, Spain
Roel Wieringa University of Twente, The Netherlands
Empirical Track Co-chairs
Daniel M. Berry University of Waterloo, Canada
Norbert Seyff University of Zurich, Switzerland
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Steering Committee
Patrick Heymans (Chair) University of Namur, Belgium
Pete Sawyer (Vice Chair) Lancaster University, UK
Daniel M. Berry University of Waterloo, Canada
Daniela Damian University of Victoria, Canada
Joerg Doerr Fraunhofer IESE, Germany
Xavier Franch University Polit`ecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Martin Glinz University of Zurich, Switzerland
Andreas L. Opdahl University of Bergen, Norway
Barbara Paech University of Heidelberg, Germany
Anne Persson University of Sko¨vde, Sweden
Bjorn Regnell Lund University, Sweden
Camille Salinesi University of Paris 1 — Sorbonne, France
Inge van de Weerd VrijeUniversiteitAmsterdam,TheNetherlands
Roel Wieringa University of Twente, The Netherlands
Program Committee
Aybuke Aurum University of New South Wales, Australia
Brian Berenbach Siemens Corporate Research, USA
Dan Berry University of Waterloo, Canada
Sjaak Brinkkemper Utrecht University, The Netherlands
David Callele University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Jane Cleland-Huang DePaul University, USA
Eric Dubois CRP Henri Tudor, Luxembourg
Armin Eberlein American University of Sharjah, UAE
Xavier Franch University Polit`ecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Samuel Fricker Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
Donald Gause Binghamton University, USA
Vincenzo Gervasi University of Pisa, Italy
Martin Glinz University of Zurich, Switzerland
Tony Gorschek Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
Olly Gotel Independent Researcher, USA
Paul Gruenbacher Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria
Peter Haumer IBM Rational, USA
Andrea Herrmann Free Software Engineering Trainer, Germany
Patrick Heymans University of Namur, Berlgium
Matthias Jarke RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Natalia Juristo University Polit´ecnica de Madrid, Spain
Erik Kamsties University of Applied Sciences and Arts
Dortmund, Germany
Peter Karpati Institute for Energy Technology, Norway
Marjo Kauppinen Aalto University, Finland
Eric Knauss University of Victoria, Canada
Conference Organization IX
Kim Lauenroth adesso AG, Germany
Soren Lauesen IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Pericles Loucopoulos LoughboroughUniversity, UK
Nazim Madhavji University of Western Ontario, Canada
Raimundas Matulevicius University of Tartu, Estonia
Raul Mazo University Paris 1 Panth´eon — Sorbonne,
France
John Mylopoulos University of Trento, Italy
Cornelius Ncube Bournemouth University, UK
Bashar Nuseibeh Open University, UK
Barbara Paech University of Heidelberg, Germany
Oscar Pastor Lopez University Polit´ecnica de Valencia, Spain
Anne Persson University of Sko¨vde, Sweden
Kai Petersen Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
Jolita Ralyte University of Geneva, Switzerland
Gil Regev Ecole Polytechnique F´ed´eralede Lausanne,
Switzerland
Bjorn Regnell Lund University, Sweden
Colette Rolland University Paris 1 Panth´eon — Sorbonne,
France
Camille Salinesi University Paris 1 Panth´eon — Sorbonne,
France
Kristian Sandahl Linko¨ping University, Sweden
Pete Sawyer Lancaster University, UK
Kurt Schneider Leibniz Universita¨t Hannover,Germany
Norbert Seyff University of Zurich, Switzerland
Guttorm Sindre Norwegian University of Science and
Technology, Norway
Janis Stirna Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Christer Tho¨rn Jo¨nko¨ping University, Sweden
Inge Van De Weerd VrijeUniversiteitAmsterdam,TheNetherlands
Thorsten Weyer University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Roel Wieringa University of Twente, The Netherlands
Eric Yu University of Toronto, Canada
Didar Zowghi University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Additional Reviewers
Ulrike Abelein Pascal Van Eck
Beatrice Alenljung Xavier Ferre
Muneera Bano Anne Hess
Elizabeth Bjarnason Tom-Michael Hesse
Markus Borg C´edric Jeanneret
Eya Ben Charrada Alejandrina Mara Aranda Lo´pez King
Alexander Delater Anne Koziolek
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Alessio Micheli Kevin Vlaanderen
Gilles Perrouin Krzysztof Wnuk
Bastian Tenbergen Rosalee Wolfe
Irina Todoran Dustin Wu¨est
Michael Unterkalmsteiner Gabriele Zorn-Pauli