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Requirements Engineering for Innovative Software Ecosystems: A Research Preview

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Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ 2019)

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[Context and motivation] In order to stay competitive in the Digital Transformation era, many organizations are engaging in innovative software ecosystems (SES). However, there is a lack of specific methods for tackling SES engineering challenges. [Question/problem] This paper presents a Requirements Engineering (RE) decision framework and a process for guiding key SES partners in the process of shaping their SES. [Principal ideas/results] Both the framework and the process build upon the results of a literature review and interviews with practitioners, and have undergone a preliminary qualitative evaluation. [Contribution] The systematic approach for shaping SES together with an explicit and clear definition of its application context will enable practitioners and researchers to apply it and/or translate it to other application contexts.

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Acknowledgement

This work was done in the context of the project Smart MaaS funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (grant number 01MD18014B).

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  1. Fraunhofer IESE, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Karina Villela, Shashank Kedlaya & Joerg Doerr

  2. TU Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Shashank Kedlaya

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Villela, K., Kedlaya, S., Doerr, J. (2019). Requirements Engineering for Innovative Software Ecosystems: A Research Preview. In: Knauss, E., Goedicke, M. (eds) Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality. REFSQ 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11412. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15538-4_8

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