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Requirement Engineering as a Software Development Process

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The paper introduces a novel requirements management tool, incorporating software development practices into requirements engineering. It is motivated by an expectation that using well-established techniques should provide benefits such as increase of requirements quality, better alignment of tooling to organization needs and support for Agile project management techniques. Our aim, therefore, is to provide an open architecture for various requirements engineering activities, as till now, many of existing requirements management tools do not follow the latest developments in software development practices. In this paper, we propose a mapping of various aspects of software development based on Continuous Integration to requirements engineering and describe a prototype requirements management tool built to validate the proposed concept.

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    Pawel Baszuro

  2. Institute of Information Technology in Management, University of Szczecin, Mickiewicza 64, 71-101, Szczecin, Poland

    Jakub Swacha

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  3. Faculty of Computer Science, Bialystok University of Technology, Białystok, Poland

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Baszuro, P., Swacha, J. (2020). Requirement Engineering as a Software Development Process. In: Poniszewska-Marańda, A., Kryvinska, N., Jarząbek, S., Madeyski, L. (eds) Data-Centric Business and Applications. Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies, vol 40. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34706-2_2

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