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BACKGROUND: The German tax authorities wanted to replace a mainframe application from the 1960s by a new one with the same functionality but based on modern technologies. The subject matter of tax laws is very complex and contextual constraints made ...

Requirements engineering (RE) plays an essential role in the success of system and software development. Textual use case models are valuable for capturing diverse scenarios describing the interactions between the system and its actors, but their ...

The development of comprehensive use case descriptions is a critical task in software engineering, providing essential insights for requirement analysis and system design. The advent of advanced natural language processing models, such as ChatGPT, has ...

User stories, expressed in snippets of natural language text, are commonly used to elicit stakeholder's needs in agile software development. Requirement engineers model user stories to interpret the relations among goals and requirements. Manual ...

Business goals and economic values typically drive decisions in digitalization efforts and software development projects. There seems to be a lack of awareness that other values, such as ethical ones, should be respected to produce systems that do not ...

Blockchain technology has attracted significant attention in both academia and industry. Recently, the application of blockchain has been advocated in software engineering. The global software engineering paradigm exacerbates trust issues, as ...

This study leverages software engineering (SE) experts' judgment to validate a blockchain‐enabled requirements traceability (RT) framework and prototype. The analysis of data indicated that blockchain is useful and applicable for trustworthy RT, but ...

Capturing users’ engagement is crucial for gathering feedback about the features of a software product. In a market-driven context, current approaches to collecting and analyzing users’ feedback are based on techniques leveraging information extracted ...

The quality of requirements specifications may impact subsequent, dependent software engineering (SE) activities. However, empirical evidence of this impact remains scarce and too often superficial as studies abstract from the phenomena under ...

Many software companies started to foster diverse and inclusive teams, aiming to increase team satisfaction, enhance process efficiency, spur innovation, and increase profitability. However, diversity and inclusion are often overlooked from a ...

Accessibility is the practice of making content and functionality accessible to all users, regardless of their abilities. Although accessibility is a highly relevant quality attribute, it is often treated as an afterthought in software development, ...

Software Requirements Specifications (SRS) often lack the necessary level of specificity required by software architects to make well-informed architectural decisions. This deficiency compels software architects to probe business analysts to collect more ...

The rapid advancement and integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in various sectors have accentuated the importance of explainability in AI systems. This vision paper presents an exploration into the multifaceted nature of AI explainability, ...

In this experience paper, we present the lessons learned from the First University of St. Gallen Grand Challenge 2023, a competition involving interdisciplinary teams tasked with assessing the legal compliance of real-world AI-based systems with the ...

The growing presence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in various sectors necessitates systems that accurately reflect societal diversity. This study seeks to envision the operationalization of the ethical imperatives of diversity and inclusion (D&I) ...

Requirements engineering (RE) comprises human-centric activities requiring collaboration between different software development team roles. While prior research highlights the impact of personality on software development, there is limited empirical ...

Requirements engineering plays a pivotal role in the development of safety-critical systems. However, the process is usually a manual one and can lead to errors and inconsistencies in the requirements that are not easily detectable. Formal methods are ...

As software solutions permeate the whole spectrum of human activities, many software systems previously developed to address specific issues suddenly find themselves becoming parts of interlinked and inter-dependent complex systems. This paper discusses ...

Requirements engineering is a key skill in systems and software engineering. Educating students in the different forms and concepts of requirements engineering (e.g., traditional versus agile) is essential to prepare them for any technical job. However, ...

Digital Twins (DTs) are dynamic virtual models that mirror the behavior and characteristics of physical systems. They are emerging as a crucial tool in digital transformation, adaptable for various applications. DTs are used to simulate, analyze, and ...

Engineering large-scale industrial systems mandate an effective Requirements Engineering (RE) process. Such systems necessitate RE process optimization to align with standards, infrastructure specifications, and customer expectations. Recently, ...