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How do practitioners perceive the relevance of requirements engineering research?
An ongoing study
Franch, Xavier; Fernández, Daniel Méndez; Oriol, Marc; Vogelsang, Andreas; Heldal, Rogardt; Knauss, Eric; Travassos, Guilherme Horta; Carver, Jeffrey C.; Dieste, Oscar; Zimmermann, Thomas
The relevance of Requirements Engineering (RE) research to practitioners is a prerequisite for problem-driven research in the area and key for a long-term dissemination of research results to everyday practice. To understand better how industry practitioners perceive the practical relevance of RE research, we have initiated the RE-Pract project, an international collaboration conducting an empirical study. This project opts for a replication of previous work done in two different domains and relies on survey research. To this end, we have designed a survey to be sent to several hundred industry practitioners at various companies around the world and ask them to rate their perceived practical relevance of the research described in a sample of 418 RE papers published between 2010 and 2015 at the RE, ICSE, FSE, ESEC/FSE, ESEM and REFSQ conferences. In this paper, we summarize our research protocol and present the current status of our study and the planned future steps.
Published in: Requirements Engineering Conference (RE), 2017 IEEE 25th International, 10.1109/RE.2017.17, IEEE
