Requirements Engineering (RE) can be defined as the area of Software Engineering concerned with the discovery and documentation of the purpose of a system. Requirements play a major role in the quality of a systems, both for its specification and for its analysis. Fit-for-purpose is arguably the main quality criterion for any system, a system’s lifecycle and its associated work-products can need to fulfil quality criteria (e.g., from engineering or assurance standards), and quality requirements (aka non-functional requirements, such as usability, performance, reliability, etc.) are essential for system success. RE usually further needs to adhere to quality principles itself, such the correctness, completeness, and consistency for a requirements specification. In general, quality is often seen as conformance to some requirements, but the difficulty of handling and demonstrating this conformance is increasing as a result of the growth in systems’ complexity and size and of new system application for a wide range of daily aspects (e.g., transport, healthcare, energy). Quality is becoming a moving and evolving target in the scope of RE and thus needs new means to manage it.
We seek novel contributions on how to leverage ICT systems quality through RE techniques, methods, and tools, as well as empirical studies and experience reports that present how RE contributes to system quality.
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
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José Luis de la Vara is a Senior Researcher (Ramon y Cajal Fellow) at the Computing Systems Department of the University of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain) since 2019, where he is also a member of the "Laboratory of User Interaction and Software Engineering" research group. He received a BEng degree in Computer Science (2006), a MSc degree in Software Engineering, Formal Methods and Information Systems (2008), and a PhD degree in Computer Science (2011) from the Technical University of Valencia (Spain). Prior to joining the University of Castilla-La Mancha, he worked at the Research Centre on Software Production Methods (PROS) of the Technical University of Valencia (2005-2011), the Software Engineering Department of Simula Research Laboratory (Norway) (2011-2015), and the Computer Science Department and the Knowledge Reuse research group of Carlos III University of Madrid (Spain) (2015-2019). Within the overall area of Systems and Software Engineering, his main research interests include Requirements Engineering, System Assurance, Model-Driven Engineering, and Empirical Software Engineering.