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This paper presents the current capabilities of mobile technologies to support the requirements engineering phase of software development projects. After a short insight into the state of the art of requirements engineering, different areas of application of mobile requirements engineering processes and tools - such as Arena-M or the Mobile Scenario Presenter - are being presented. The paper concludes with a critical statement regarding the benefit of current mobile tools in real-life requirements engineering.
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Kurtz, G., Geisser, M., Hildenbrand, T., Kude, T. (2008). Mobile Technologies in Requirements Engineering. In: Sobh, T. (eds) Advances in Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8741-7_58
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