International Requirements Engineering Efficiency Workshop (REEW 2011)

held on March 31, 2011 in Essen, Germany at the
17th International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (RefsQ'11)

News:
- 110408SF: Preliminary proceedings available online.
- 110401SF: Workshop held with very interesting discussions.
- 110316SF: Program published.
- 110202SF: REEW 2011 confirmed to be held at RefsQ'11.
- 110125SF: Submission portal is closed.
- 110118SF: Submission portal is open (https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=reew11).
- 101217SF: REEW 2011 is planned to be held on March 31 in the Morning.
- 101207SF: Call for Papers available.
- 101126SF: REEW 2011 is accepted for RefsQ'11.

Requirements engineering research has for a long time focused on specification quality, leading to recommendations of how to engineer “perfect” requirements specifications. Practitioners, however, do not have the time, resources, and interests for overdoing requirements engineering. Rather, many situations call for short-cuts that allow investing effort in those concerns that are critical for success, while reducing effort in other areas where risk is comparably smaller. The social context, smart collaboration processes, and novel ways of looking at the interface between stakeholders and the supplier can be a basis to increase the yield of requirements engineering, while reducing required effort.

The International Requirements Engineering Efficiency Workshop (REEW 2011) aims at initiating, facilitating, and nurturing the discussion on efficient approaches to engineer just good-enough requirements. Requirements engineering is here seen as a means that can be simplified, automated, or combined with other practices to achieve successful systems in an economically efficient manner. REEW 2011 will provide a platform for the community of practitioners and research experts that are interested in efficient and pragmatic approaches to requirements engineering.