Context Software startups are newly created companies with no operating history and fast in
producing cutting-edge technologies. These companies develop software under highly …

Mobile applications (apps) are software developed for use on mobile devices and made
available through app stores. App stores are highly competitive markets where developers …

Requirements engineering for market-driven software development entails special
challenges. This paper presents results from an empirical study that investigates these …

Presently, global software development (GSD) is growing very rapidly. However, it is not an
easy and straightforward process. Requirements engineering (RE) and requirements …

When developing packaged software, which is sold 'off-the-shelf'on a worldwide
marketplace, it is essential to collect needs and opportunities from different market segments …

Offshore software development outsourcing (OSDO) is one of the popular development
paradigms in the software industry. There are a number of challenges associated with …

In order to create a successful software product and assure its quality, it is not enough to
fulfill the functional requirements, it is also crucial to find the right balance among competing …

Requirements elicitation is the first crucial stage of a requirements engineering process,
which intends to uncover, acquire and elaborate requirements for software systems. When …

On the one hand, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are important drivers of
economy. SMEs face a number of problems due to a lack of structure and overview of the …

Requirements engineering is critical for successful software development. Nowadays,
software development organizations are not likely to question the importance of issues …