Application markets such as Apple's App Store and Google's Play Store have played an
important role in the popularity of smartphones and mobile devices. However, keeping …

Traceability—the ability to follow the life of software artifacts—is a topic of great interest to
software developers in general, and to requirements engineers and model-driven …

Templates are effective tools for increasing the precision of natural language requirements
and for avoiding ambiguities that may arise from the use of unrestricted natural language …

Requirements need to be validated at the early phase of the software development to avoid
errors such as inconsistency, incompleteness and incorrectness. Drawn from this argument …

Software systems are increasingly open, handle large amounts of personal or other
sensitive data and are intricately linked with the daily lives of individuals and communities …

Application Programming Interface (API) documents are a typical way of describing legal
usage of reusable software libraries, thus facilitating software reuse. However, even with …

CONTEXT: Early detection of non-functional requirements (NFRs) is crucial in the evaluation
of architectural alternatives starting from initial design decisions. The application of …

A glossary is an important part of any software requirements document. By making explicit
the technical terms in a domain and providing definitions for them, a glossary helps mitigate …

Interviews are the most common and effective means to perform requirements elicitation and
support knowledge transfer between a customer and a requirements analyst. Ambiguity in …

Requirements specification is a core activity in the requirements engineering phase of a
software development project. Researchers have contributed extensively to the field of …