[Background] The rapidly changing business environments in which many companies
operate is challenging traditional Requirements Engineering (RE) approaches. This gave …

The software development environment is focused on reaching functional products in the
shortest period by making use of the least amount of resources possible. In this scenario …

Recent software development methodologies, as DevOps or Agile, are very popular and
widely used, especially for the development of cloud services and applications. They …

Large open and closed source organizations like Google, Facebook and Mozilla are
migrating their products towards rapid releases. While this allows faster time-to-market and …

Continuous deployment involves automatically testing incremental software changes and
frequently deploying them to production environments. With it, developers' changes can …

Non-functional requirements (NFRs) are determinant for the success of software projects.
However, they are characterized as hard to define, and in agile software development …

Agile methods can deliver software that fulfills customer needs rapidly and continuously.
Quality requirements (QRs) are important in this regard; however, detailed studies on how …

Because of GDPR's principle of “data protection by design and by default”, organizations
who wish to stay lawful have to re-think their data practices. Access Control (AC) can be a …

Agile software development has gained a lot of popularity in the software industry due to its
iterative and incremental approach as well as user involvement. Agile has also been …

There is a lack of formal risk management techniques in agile software development
methods Scrum. The need to manage risks in agile project management is also identified by …