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For quite a long time research results in requirements engineering (RE) were developed without much interaction with, or impact on, practice. In 1993 Hsia et al. [2] made an honest evaluation of the requirements engineering practice. Since then, some improvements have been achieved, e.g., by some applications of usage scenarios. Nevertheless, mainstream practice is still to use one’s favourite word processor to write down mostly unstructured text in natural language, even though there exists some influential work and good experience with approaches that have used RE results in real projects (see, e.g., [1, 3]). In fact, mainstream practice deals only rudimentarily with requirements, and what is done might not even deserve to be called “engineering”.
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- Requirement Engineering
- Requirement Engineer
- Unstructured Text
- Panel Format
- Manage Organisational Change
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Kaindl, H., Mylopoulos, J. (2000). Why Is It So Difficult to Introduce RE Research Results into Mainstream RE Practice?. In: Wangler, B., Bergman, L. (eds) Advanced Information Systems Engineering. CAiSE 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1789. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45140-4_2
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