Banff, Canada, 2018

EARS18

RE18 – IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference

Program

Session 1:

09.00 - 09.30 Blastoff, Introductions, Goal Setting

09.30 - 10.00 EARS intro and retrospective (Alistair Mavin)

10.00 - 10.30 One minute madness

10.30 - 11.00 Network Break

Session 2:

11.00 - 12.30 Paper presentations (10 minute presentations + open discussion)

              • Easy Approach to Requirements Syntax in Nuclear Power Plant Safety Design: Topi Tahvonen and Eero Uusitalo
              • Integration of two kinds of syntax for requirements description and its future development: Norihiro Urushibara and Chiharu Sasaki
              • Deriving Mitigation Requirements with Easy Approach to Requirements Syntax: Philip Wilkinson and Alistair Mavin
              • Formalizing EARS: Levi Lucio and Tahira Iqbal

12.30 - 14.00 Lunch Break

Session 3:

14.00 - 14.30 Paper presentations (10 minute presentations + open discussion)

              • A CLEAR Adoption of EARS: Brendan Hall, Devesh Bhatt, Anitha Murugesan, Ron Kilmer, Bob Arnold, Jose Colunga and Jon Bartling
              • Experiences with Teaching EARS to First-Year SE Students: Jennifer Horkoff

14.00 - 15.30 Specification Challenges

              • Participants are asked to bring a challenge case. Group will select challenges to address and perform group work.

15.30 - 16.00 Network Break

Session 4:

16.00 - 17.30 Discussion and Workshop Closing

              • Reporting results from Specification Challenges
              • Revisit whiteboards
              • Discuss remaining challenges and way forward
              • Conclusion/wrap up/outlook